NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1940 › Disposition of unfair labor practice cases on docket during the fiscal year: by types of complainant
| Docket record and method of disposition | Total number of cases | Total number of workers involved | A. F. of L. affiliates | C. I. O. affiliates | Unaffiliated unions | Individual persons | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Docket record and method of disposition | Total number of cases | Total number of workers involved | Number of cases | Number of workers involved | Number of cases | Number of workers involved | Number of cases | Number of workers involved | Number of cases | Number of workers involved |
| Cases pending June 30, 1939 | 2,902 | 926,169 | 1,052 | 148,682 | 1,519 | 692,360 | 96 | 79,377 | 237 | 5,750 |
| Cases received July 1, 1939–June 30, 1940 | 3,934 | 707,439 | 1,800 | 321,541 | 1,443 | 304,689 | 207 | 41,928 | 484 | 39,281 |
| Total cases on docket during fiscal year | 6,836 | 1,633,608 | 2,852 | 470,223 | 2,962 | 997,049 | 303 | 121,305 | 721 | 45,031 |
| Cases closed before formal action, total | 4,132 | 707,182 | 1,854 | 289,142 | 1,558 | 365,190 | 175 | 32,222 | 546 | 20,628 |
| Settled | 1,836 | 179,004 | 972 | 62,769 | 664 | 105,821 | 83 | 6,085 | 117 | 4,329 |
| Dismissed | 930 | 239,634 | 298 | 41,984 | 363 | 180,523 | 42 | 3,991 | 228 | 13,136 |
| Withdrawn | 1,343 | 281,244 | 573 | 178,236 | 523 | 77,742 | 49 | 22,106 | 198 | 3,160 |
| Otherwise before formal action closed | 23 | 7,300 | 11 | 6,153 | 8 | 1,104 | 1 | 40 | 3 | 3 |
| Closed after formal action, total | 532 | 165,469 | 165 | 35,464 | 319 | 124,282 | 28 | 3,753 | 21 | 1,970 |
| Prior to hearing: | ||||||||||
| Settled | 28 | 8,096 | 8 | 317 | 16 | 7,695 | 1 | 3 | 84 | |
| Dismissed | 6 | 1,606 | 2 | 76 | 3 | 1,423 | 1 | 107 | ||
| Withdrawn | 5 | 754 | 3 | 564 | 2 | 190 | ||||
| Prior to issuance of intermediate report or proposed findings: | ||||||||||
| Settled | 13 | 5,287 | 5 | 661 | 8 | 4,626 | ||||
| Dismissed | 3 | 901 | 3 | 901 | ||||||
| Withdrawn | 2 | 141 | 2 | 141 | ||||||
| Otherwise closed | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| After issuance of intermediate report or proposed findings: | ||||||||||
| Dismissed | 10 | 2,269 | 6 | 1,171 | 3 | 1,097 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Withdrawn | 11 | 3,028 | 3 | 814 | 7 | 2,012 | 1 | 202 | ||
| Compliance secured | 26 | 3,042 | 9 | 827 | 13 | 1,671 | 2 | 442 | 2 | 102 |
| Closed because of company liquidation | 3 | 95 | 2 | 81 | 1 | 14 | ||||
| After Board decision: | ||||||||||
| Dismissed | 63 | 12,591 | 14 | 1,909 | 42 | 10,273 | 2 | 140 | 5 | 269 |
| Withdrawn | 2 | 27 | 2 | 27 | ||||||
| Compliance secured | 118 | 34,262 | 44 | 4,866 | 63 | 27,705 | 6 | 810 | 5 | 881 |
| Otherwise closed after decision | 26 | 4,944 | 6 | 663 | 18 | 4,204 | 2 | 77 | ||
| After court action: | ||||||||||
| Dismissed | 6 | 3,663 | 2 | 1,037 | 4 | 2,626 | ||||
| Compliance secured | 206 | 84,108 | 55 | 22,105 | 134 | 59,395 | 13 | 2,081 | 5 | 527 |
| Otherwise closed after court action | 3 | 655 | 2 | 205 | 1 | 450 | ||||
| Total cases closed during fiscal year | 4,664 | 872,651 | 2,019 | 324,606 | 1,877 | 489,472 | 203 | 35,975 | 567 | 22,598 |
| Cases pending June 30, 1940 | 2,172 | 760,957 | 833 | 145,617 | 1,085 | 507,577 | 100 | 85,330 | 154 | 22,433 |
203 of 235 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
p. 30. 11 columns: stub plus a 2-column total pair and four 2-column complainant-type panels (A. F. of L., C. I. O., Unaffiliated unions, Individual persons). All footnote markers in this table are printed raised and BEFORE the number they attach to; I have moved them behind the value with a caret as instructed. Three cells carry two markers at once (Cases pending June 30, 1939 / Total cases on docket / Total cases closed, all in the C. I. O. "Number of cases" column); I wrote these as "^3^4". Two cells hold only a parenthesized raised footnote reference rather than a value, transcribed as "(^5)": "Prior to hearing: Settled" in the Unaffiliated unions "Number of workers involved" column, and "Otherwise closed" (under "Prior to issuance of intermediate report or proposed findings") in the C. I. O. "Number of workers involved" column. In that same "Otherwise closed" row the Total "Number of workers involved" cell is a dash rule, transcribed as "". Two apparent typesetting slips, transcribed as the intended digits: the "Withdrawn" row under "Cases closed before formal action" prints "3, 160." with a trailing period in the Individual persons workers column (given as 3,160); and "Total cases closed during fiscal year" prints "1. 877" with a period where the grouping comma belongs in the C. I. O. "Number of cases" column (given as 1,877). The scan is a coarse 1-bit halftone and several digits (notably 6/8/0/9 and 5/6) are soft, but every row and column I could check adds up exactly — the four panel columns sum to each Total column, the detail rows sum to their subtotals, the two subtotals sum to "Total cases closed during fiscal year", and docket minus closed equals "Cases pending June 30, 1940" — so the doubtful glyphs are confirmed by arithmetic rather than by shape alone. The sub-rows of "Cases closed before formal action, total" and "Closed after formal action, total" are indented under those totals in the original; indentation is not represented in the grid.
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.