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Disposition of unfair labor practice cases on docket during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, by regions

printed as Table 8 · source page 42 · nlrb1939_p0042_t0

	Number of cases on docket fiscal year 1938-1939		Disposition of cases														Total cases disposed of	Total cases pending June 30, 1939
	Number of cases on docket fiscal year 1938-1939		Before issuance of complaint				After issuance of complaint and before Board decision								After Board decision		Total cases disposed of	Total cases pending June 30, 1939
	Number of cases on docket fiscal year 1938-1939		Before issuance of complaint				Settled		Dismissed		Withdrawn		Intermediate report		After Board decision		Total cases disposed of	Total cases pending June 30, 1939
	Number	Workers involved	Settled	Dismissed	Withdrawn	Otherwise	Before hearing	After hearing	Before hearing	After hearing	Before hearing	After hearing	No violation	Compliance	Dismissed	Compliance	Total cases disposed of	Total cases pending June 30, 1939
Board	10	98,925	1		2												3	7
Region:
1. Boston	424	46,368	151	40	93		1							1	1	12	299	125
2. New York	1,061	184,719	310	126	172	3	7	12	6	1	9	4		8	3	32	693	368
3. Buffalo	124	45,992	27	12	18	3								2	5	4	71	53
4. Philadelphia	307	87,496	83	20	65		1	3			1	2		3	1	15	194	113
5. Baltimore	455	61,474	123	16	84	1	2	3		1		2		4	2	34	272	183
6. Pittsburgh	176	51,596	31	6	37	1	2		1	1						3	82	94
7. Detroit	248	91,617	62	28	29		2	1		2			1		1	2	128	120
8. Cleveland	224	34,015	37	10	52	3	3	2	1	1					1	5	115	109
9. Cincinnati	443	87,337	216	33	47	3	1	3				1		2		6	312	131
10. Atlanta	255	31,329	41	38	36		2	5					1		3	9	135	120
11. Indianapolis	273	45,230	64	22	73	1							2			15	177	96
12. Milwaukee	263	45,500	89	27	25	1	1						1		1	7	152	111
13. Chicago	441	102,532	133	36	78	1		2						1	1	10	262	179
14. St. Louis	125	12,501	18	8	22	7		1								5	61	64
15. New Orleans	247	14,646	50	16	67	2		3		1		2			2	8	151	96
16. Fort Worth	228	31,050	58	24	49	1		1				1	1	2		12	149	79
17. Kansas City	302	30,778	77	6	39		2	1				1		1		4	131	171
18. Minneapolis	167	17,149	67	4	35	1	2			1		1		1	1	2	115	52
19. Seattle	269	43,804	68	12	45	1	1	3					2		1	12	145	124
20. San Francisco	371	154,629	80	25	39	2										2	148	223
21. Los Angeles	543	40,027	152	24	123	3		13		2		1	1			4	323	220
22. Denver	176	11,561	52	6	39	1	2			2				1	5	4	112	64
Total	7,132	1,370,275	1,990	539	1,269	35	29	53	8	12	10	15	9	26	28	207	4,230	2,902

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1 Cases in which the Board assumed original jurisdiction.
2 See footnote (4), Table I.

300 of 300 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.

Reader’s notes

p. 42. 19 columns. The stub has no printed heading, so cell 0 is empty in all four heading levels. "Number of cases on docket fiscal year 1938-1939", "Total cases disposed of" and "Total cases pending June 30, 1939" are tall headings spanning all four levels; "Before issuance of complaint" and "After Board decision" span levels 2-3; they are repeated in every level and column they span. Nil entries are printed as dash rules (------) throughout the body and are transcribed as "". The scan is a low-contrast 1-bit image in which several 6s and 9s render much like 0s at the available resolution. I therefore checked the whole grid arithmetically: all 18 column totals against the printed "Total" row, and every region row against its printed "Total cases disposed of" and the identity Number - disposed = pending. All 18 column totals and all 23 row identities reconcile exactly as transcribed — notably "Workers involved" sums to precisely the printed 1,370,275. That resolves the doubtful glyphs, which I read as: Pittsburgh "Total cases pending" 94; Indianapolis "Before issuance of complaint - Settled" 64; Chicago "Total cases disposed of" 262; Buffalo "Workers involved" 45,992; New Orleans "Before issuance of complaint - Dismissed" 16; Denver and St. Louis "Total cases pending" 64. No printed figure appears to be a misprint. Two placements worth flagging, both settled by the column totals rather than by the pixels alone: Detroit's "1" sits in "Settled - After hearing" (not "Dismissed - Before hearing"), and Seattle's "2" sits in "Intermediate report - No violation" (not "Compliance"). The Minneapolis row carries a stray curved ink or pencil stroke through the "Dismissed - After hearing" cell; the digit under it is legible as 1 and both the row and the column total confirm it. The footnote marker attached to "Compliance" in the "After Board decision" group, and the marker opening the second footnote, are a small raised digit that could be read as either 2 or 3 at this resolution. I transcribed both as 2, since the table prints only two footnotes and the first is numbered 1. There is also a faint speck under the "After Board decision" heading that I take to be scan dirt rather than a marker. The caption, the running head "V. UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICE CASES" set vertically in the right margin, and the page number 35 are omitted. Nothing is cut off by the crop.

Source image

Source page 42 of NLRB FY1939 annual report — Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1939, p. 42.

Source data: U.S. NLRB Annual Reports (public domain). Reconstruction by NLRB Stats Archive. Read by claude-opus-5 (effort max, prompt extract_v1) from the 300-dpi scan; stitched by page. Updated October 2026.