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Number of cases and number of workers involved in cases closed by the National Labor Relations Board 1935-41, by stage of closing

printed as Table 10 · source page 35 · nlrb1941_p0035_t0

	1935-36			1936-37			1937-38			1938-39			1939-40			1940-41
	Cases		Workers involved	Cases		Workers involved	Cases		Workers involved	Cases		Workers involved	Cases		Workers involved	Cases		Workers involved
	Number	Percent of total	Workers involved	Number	Percent of total	Workers involved	Number	Percent of total	Workers involved	Number	Percent of total	Workers involved	Number	Percent of total	Workers involved	Number	Percent of total	Workers involved
All cases closed	738	100.0	144,312	2,344	100.0	467,807	8,851	100.0	1,845,818	6,569	100.0	1,028,959	7,354	100.0	1,488,020	8,396	100.0	2,082,036
Cases closed before formal action	621	84.1	129,277	2,174	92.7	420,664	8,042	90.9	1,209,097	5,534	84.2	759,680	6,098	82.9	1,090,140	7,114	84.7	1,457,392
Cases closed after formal action	117	15.9	15,035	170	7.3	47,143	809	9.1	636,721	1,035	15.8	269,279	1,256	17.1	397,880	1,282	15.3	624,644
Before hearing							363	4.1	418,866	92	1.4	19,968	87	1.2	17,937	108	1.3	16,954
After hearing										200	3.0	50,172	133	1.8	27,780	87	1.0	17,074
After decision or certification							446	5.0	217,855	743	11.3	199,139	821	11.2	263,737	855	10.2	455,003
After court action													215	2.9	88,426	232	2.8	135,613
Unfair labor practice cases closed	636	100.0	92,725	1,762	100.0	249,886	5,694	100.0	946,575	4,230	100.0	444,106	4,664	100.0	872,651	4,698	100.0	1,208,005
Cases closed before formal action	531	83.5	81,199	1,668	94.7	232,265	5,487	96.4	609,443	3,833	90.6	362,029	4,132	88.6	707,182	4,240	90.3	980,454
Cases closed after formal action	105	16.5	11,526	94	5.3	17,621	207	3.6	337,132	397	9.4	82,077	532	11.4	165,469	458	9.7	227,551
Before hearing							174	3.1	330,584	47	1.1	10,780	39	.8	10,456	26	.6	5,708
After hearing										115	2.7	24,461	69	1.5	14,763	60	1.2	14,599
After decision							33	.5	6,548	235	5.6	46,836	209	4.5	51,824	140	3.0	71,631
After court action													215	4.6	88,426	232	4.9	135,613
Representation cases closed	102	100.0	51,587	582	100.0	217,921	3,157	100.0	899,243	2,339	100.0	584,853	2,690	100.0	615,369	3,698	100.0	1,055,243
Cases closed before formal action	90	88.2	48,078	506	86.9	188,399	2,555	80.9	599,654	1,701	72.7	397,651	1,966	73.1	382,958	2,874	77.7	609,064
Cases closed after formal action	12	11.8	3,509	76	13.1	29,522	602	19.1	299,589	638	27.3	187,202	724	26.9	232,411	824	22.3	446,179
Before hearing							189	6.0	88,282	45	1.9	9,188	48	1.8	7,481	82	2.2	12,829
After hearing										85	3.6	25,711	64	2.4	13,017	27	.7	5,553
After decision or certification							413	13.1	211,307	508	21.7	152,303	612	22.8	211,913	715	19.3	427,797

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1 Covers 9 months from October 1935 to June 1936, only.
2 The number of workers involved in all cases differs from the sum of the number of workers involved in unfair labor practice cases and representation cases because workers involved in both types of cases at the same time are included in the totals for each type of case, but are included only once in the grand total.

108 of 182 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.

Reader’s notes

p. 35. Structure: 19 columns (stub + six fiscal years x Number / Percent of total / Workers involved). The stub column has no printed heading, so the stub cell is empty in all three heading levels; "Workers involved" is a tall heading spanning heading levels 2 and 3 and is repeated there. Braced (shared) entries. The stage-of-closing detail rows carry printers' braces where one figure covers more than one stub line; I placed each printed figure in the row on whose line it is set and left the other row empty for that year: - 1935-36 and 1936-37: all four stage-detail rows in each section are covered by a single large brace in the stub and show only a dash rule, i.e. no figures were published; those 24 cells are "" by design, not illegible. - 1937-38: in each section one figure stands for "Before hearing" + "After hearing" (363 / 4.1 / 418,866 for all cases; 174 / 3.1 / 330,584 for unfair labor practice; 189 / 6.0 / 88,282 for representation) and one stands for "After decision (or certification)" + "After court action" (446 / 5.0 / 217,855; 33 / .5 / 6,548; 413 / 13.1 / 211,307). The brace sits between the 1937-38 and 1938-39 panels. - 1938-39: 743 / 11.3 / 199,139 (all cases) is braced against the 1939-40 pair 821 and 215, i.e. it covers "After decision or certification" + "After court action"; same for 235 / 5.6 / 46,836 in the unfair labor practice section. The "After court action" cells for 1937-38 and 1938-39 are therefore empty. Label wording: in the unfair labor practice section the third detail row is printed "After decision" (no "or certification"), unlike the corresponding rows in the other two sections; transcribed as printed. Doubtful cells: the 1940-41 "Percent of total" for the all-cases "After hearing" row is printed as 1.0 preceded by a small stray dot (rendered "·1.0"); 87 of 8,396 = 1.0 percent, so I read it as 1.0 and treat the dot as a speck rather than a leading decimal point or a footnote marker. Arithmetic: every component set sums to its printed total (cases and workers) in all six years and all three sections, and the percent columns agree with those counts, so no misprints are suspected.

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Source page 35 of NLRB FY1941 annual report — Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1941, p. 35.

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.