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Number of cases and number of workers involved in cases received, closed, and pending 1940-41, by affiliation of filing party

printed as Table 12 · source pages 37–38 · nlrb1941_p0037_t0

Stitched from pp. 37–38.

All casesCases filed by A. F. of L. affiliatesCases filed by C. I. O. affiliatesCases filed by unaffiliated unionsCases filed by individualsCases filed by employers
NumberNumber of workers involvedNumberNumber of workers involvedNumberNumber of workers involvedNumberNumber of workers involvedNumberNumber of workers involvedNumberNumber of workers involved
Cases pending, July 1, 19402,9111,370,9191,173325,4261,348870,554209133,37215938,979191,868
Cases received, July 1940–June 19419,1512,373,3614,261806,8463,7401,161,221595157,003476236,022736,974
Cases on docket, July 1940–June 194112,062 23,744,280 25,4341,132,2725,0882,031,775804290,375635275,001928,842
Cases closed, July 1940–June 19418,3962,082,0363,876744,8203,4391,030,181548129,171456165,161717,308
Cases closed before formal action7,1141,457,3923,379488,3902,803691,108418104,915451162,871574,713
Cases settled4,097656,7262,116255,5211,664327,44918040,35411430,478202,379
Cases dismissed1,000349,58136077,538303164,38112525,57719180,365201,470
Cases withdrawn1,981434,496885152,051828191,66810533,32014451,99317864
Cases closed otherwise3616,589183,28087,61085,664235
Cases closed after formal action1,282624,644497256,430636339,07313024,25652,290142,595
Cases closed before hearing10816,954506,627487,89381,5452889
Cases settled6812,226295,208365,60425251889
Cases dismissed81,110367242026231[5]
Cases withdrawn313,609171,343101,8694397
Cases closed otherwise1919
Cases closed after hearing8717,074398,362317,89615262790
Cases settled4610,241204,161166,0541026
Cases dismissed101,47451,4242503
Cases withdrawn12815427365422
Cases closed by compliance with intermediate report194,544102,50471,2502790
Cases closed otherwise
Cases closed after board decision855455,003319212,919419217,04210221,83631,500121,706
Cases dismissed21850,0297513,30210333,265361,84911,5003113
Cases withdrawn171,70368591,6182[6]
Cases closed by certification518351,936198189,476252143,4905917,37791,593
Cases closed by compliance7941,712335,8594235,4544399
Cases closed otherwise239,62374,197133,21532,211
Cases closed after court action232135,6138928,522138106,2425849
Cases dismissed1411,67453,91497,760
Cases closed by compliance188111,7477023,47511587,8733399
Cases closed otherwise3012,192141,1331410,6092450
Cases pending June 30, 19413,6661,662,2441,558387,4521,6491,001,594256161,204179109,840211,534

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  1. 1 Includes 3 cases in which unions of different affiliations filed charges or petitions jointly.
  2. 2 Includes 6 cases in which unions of different affiliations filed charges or petitions jointly.
  3. 3 Includes 1 case in which unions of different affiliations filed charges or petitions jointly.
  4. 4 Includes 2 cases in which unions of different affiliations filed charges or petitions jointly.
  5. 5 In 156 of these cases a consent decree was entered.
  6. 6 Workers involved in these cases have been counted in another case.
  7. 7 These are representation cases only. Employers are permitted to file petitions but not charges.
  8. NOTE.—The number of workers involved in all cases in this table differs from the sum of the number of workers involved in unfair labor practice cases and representation cases given in Appendix Tables 2 and 3 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.

284 of 298 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.

Reader’s notes

p. 37. CROP CUT OFF AT THE BOTTOM. The last printed row on this image is "Cases closed by compliance"; the table (and its footnote block, which is not on this image) continues on the next crop/page. Two internal checks confirm the missing rows rather than a reading error: the four listed sub-rows under "Cases closed after board decision" sum to 832 cases against the printed 855, and the three sub-blocks of "Cases closed after formal action" (108 + 87 + 855 = 1,050 cases; 489,031 workers) fall short of the printed 1,282 / 624,644. No footnote text is visible, so `footnotes` is empty even though markers 1-7 are used in the body. DOUBLE FOOTNOTE MARKERS. On "Cases on docket, July 1940–June 1941" two raised digits are printed side by side before each All-cases value; I rendered them as a single caret followed by both digits separated by a space ("12,062^1 2", "3,744,280^1 2"). DOUBTFUL MARKER. On "Cases closed before formal action", the raised digit before the All-cases Number is clearly 3 but the one before the All-cases Number-of-workers value (1,457,392) is faint and could be 2 or 3; I read it as 2. MARKER-ONLY CELLS. Two cells hold nothing but a small parenthesized raised digit in place of a figure: "Cases dismissed" under "Cases closed before hearing", employers Number-of-workers column, read as (5); and "Cases withdrawn" under "Cases closed after board decision", individuals Number-of-workers column, read as (6). The digits are at the limit of legibility and each could be 5 or 6; both are consistent with footnote references, since in each case the panel column totals above are already satisfied without them (e.g. employers before-hearing workers total 889 = the settled row alone). VALUE IN ONE COLUMN ONLY. Under "Cases closed after hearing", the rows "Cases dismissed" (3) and "Cases withdrawn" (2) carry a figure in the unaffiliated-unions Number column while that panel's Number-of-workers cell is a dash rule, left as "". Likewise "Cases closed after hearing" shows unaffiliated-unions workers of only 26 for 15 cases; this is confirmed by the All-cases total 17,074 = 8,362 + 7,896 + 26 + 790. OTHER. "Cases closed otherwise" at the foot of the after-hearing block is a dash rule in every column, including the All-cases columns, so the whole row is "". In the employers Number column of "Cases closed after board decision" a stray ink dot precedes the figure; transcribed as 12. Column headings were broken by end-of-line hyphens and rejoined: "un-affiliated" to "unaffiliated", "in-dividuals" to "individuals". Panel sums for "Cases closed before formal action" fall 6 cases short of the printed 7,114 (3,379 + 2,803 + 418 + 451 + 57 = 7,108), although the row's own sub-rows sum exactly to 7,114; transcribed as printed, and footnote 3 (not visible) likely accounts for the 6.

p. 38. The crop shows only the last six body rows of the table, plus the footnote block; the caption, the column headings and all earlier rows are cut off above, so header_rows is empty. Column structure was read from the vertical rules in the "Cases pending June 30, 1941" line, which is the only row with all twelve numeric columns filled: six pairs of (cases, workers). Blank cells in the body are printed as dash rules ("------") and are transcribed as "". In the "Cases dismissed" row the dash rules begin in column 7, i.e. that row has values only through column 6 (7,760); the two rows beneath it carry values in columns 7-8 (3/399 and 2/450). The "Cases closed by compliance" figure in column 6 is printed as ".87,873" with a stray mark/period before the 8; I read it as 87,873. The same row's column-1 value is printed with a raised 5 before it (transcribed 188^5), and both column-1 and column-2 values of the "Cases pending June 30, 1941" row carry a raised 1. Footnote markers 2, 3, 4, 6 and 7 are referenced in parts of the table above this crop. Spaces that the typesetting leaves after digit-grouping commas have been closed up.

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Source page 37 of NLRB FY1941 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1941, p. 37.
Source page 38 of NLRB FY1941 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1941, p. 38.

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.