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Number of unfair labor practice cases and number of workers involved in unfair labor practice cases received, closed, and pending 1940-41, by affiliation of complaining union

printed as Table 13 · source pages 39–40 · nlrb1941_p0039_t0

Stitched from pp. 39–40.

All casesCases filed by A. F. of L. affiliatesCases filed by C. I. O. affiliatesCases filed by unaffiliated unionsCases filed by individuals
NumberNumber of workers involvedNumberNumber of workers involvedNumberNumber of workers involvedNumberNumber of workers involvedNumberNumber of workers involved
Cases pending, July 1, 19402,1641,062,107828149,0091,098773,00777100,46215938,979
Cases received, July 1940-June 19414,8171,464,0872,245478,2081,972697,91712251,190476236,022
Cases on docket, July 1940-June 19416,9812,526,1943,073627,2173,0701,470,924199151,652635275,001
Cases closed, July 1940-June 19414,6981,208,0052,169348,0421,925648,42614645,526456165,161
Cases closed before formal action4,240980,4541,992291,6011,674483,87612141,256451162,871
Cases settled2,113369,2161,109139,441841186,8624912,43511430,478
Cases dismissed676262,19023942,822231130,217148,53619180,365
Cases withdrawn1,436341,812639107,858597166,0945515,26714451,993
Cases closed otherwise157,23651,480570335,018235
Cases closed after formal action458227,55117756,441251164,550254,27052,290
Cases closed before hearing265,708122,388143,320
Cases settled173,44771,656101,791
Cases dismissed34561362420
Cases withdrawn61,805469621,109
Cases closed after hearing before intermediate report164,881113,10841,4331340
Cases settled123,977102,94421,033
Cases dismissed13401340
Cases withdrawn356411642400
Cases closed otherwise
Cases closed after intermediate report449,718163,949154,508114712790
Cases settled193,60137573,2089318
Cases dismissed51,56621,3631502153
Cases withdrawn1717
Cases closed by compliance with intermediate report194,544102,50471,2502790
Cases closed after board decision14071,6314918,4748049,04782,61031,500
Cases dismissed3820,37198,4242710,4471[6]11,500
Cases withdrawn37172[6]
Cases closed by compliance7941,712335,8594235,4544399
Cases closed otherwise209,54164,184113,14632,211
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, 19412,2831,318,189904279,1751,145822,49853106,126179100,840

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  1. 1 Includes 2 cases in which an A. F. of L. affiliate and a C. I. O. affiliate were joint complainants.
  2. 2 Includes 1 case in which an A. F. of L. affiliate and a C. I. O. affiliate were joint complainants, and 1 case in which an A. F. of L. affiliate and an unaffiliated union were joint complainants.
  3. 3 Includes 1 case in which an A. F. of L. affiliate and a C. I. O. affiliate were joint complainants.
  4. 4 Includes 1 case in which an A. F. of L. affiliate and an unaffiliated union were joint complainants.
  5. 5 Includes 156 cases closed after the entrance of a consent decree.
  6. 6 Workers involved in these cases have been counted in another case.

253 of 266 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.

Reader’s notes

p. 39. The crop cuts the table off at the bottom: the final row ("Cases withdrawn", the third sub-row under "Cases closed after intermediate report") is sliced through the baseline of its digits, and only the "All cases" and "A. F. of L." figures (1 / 7 / 1 / 7) are legible; the C. I. O., unaffiliated-union and individual cells of that row are below the cut and are left empty rather than read. The table clearly continues past this crop — the subtotal "Cases closed after intermediate report" is 44 cases while only 19+5+1 = 25 appear in the visible sub-rows, so further sub-rows (and probably further "Cases closed after formal action" blocks) fall on the continuation. For the same reason no footnote texts appear on this image, even though raised markers 1, 2, 3 and 4 are used in the body, so `footnotes` is empty. Marker placement: in the first five body rows the raised markers are printed to the LEFT of the figure (e.g. a raised 1 before 2,164); per instructions they are written after the value behind a caret. The "Cases on docket" row carries two markers (raised 1 and raised 2) on both of its "All cases" figures; these are rendered as "6,981^1^2" and "2,526,194^1^2" (one caret per marker), not as a single footnote 12. Doubtful cells: in "Cases closed otherwise" (the fourth sub-row of "Cases closed before formal action"), the unaffiliated-unions Number reads "3" followed by a stray ink dot, transcribed as 3. In the same block the "Cases settled" row under "Cases closed after intermediate report" has A. F. of L. Number 3 against only 75 workers; that is what is printed. Cells shown as a dashed rule (the unaffiliated/individual columns of the "before hearing" block, the "Cases closed otherwise" row of the "after hearing before intermediate report" block, and similar) are transcribed as empty strings. En dashes in the date labels have been written as plain hyphens.

p. 40. The crop is a continuation page: no column headings are printed, so header_rows is empty. The grid has 11 columns — the stub plus five cases/workers pairs (total, then four affiliation groups), whose headings appear on the preceding page. Cells printed as a dash rule or leader dots only are given as "". The two cells reading "(6)" (row "Cases dismissed" under "Cases closed after board decision", column 8; row "Cases withdrawn", column 10) are a raised footnote 6 inside parentheses standing in place of a value, not a number; they are transcribed literally as printed. Footnote markers: the raised glyphs before 232 and 135,613 in "Cases closed after court action", and before 2,283 and 1,318,189 in "Cases pending, June 30, 1941", are small and partly broken in the scan. I read them as 5 and 1 respectively, which match the content of those footnotes (consent decrees; joint complainants). Marker identity is the least certain part of this transcription; the 5 on the workers cell 135,613 is slightly fainter than the one on 232. Arithmetic (transcribed as printed, not corrected): every row above "Cases pending" cross-foots exactly — e.g. 49+80+8+3=140 and 18,474+49,047+2,610+1,500=71,631; the four detail rows sum to the "after board decision" and "after court action" lines in both cases and workers. The final row does not: the case columns sum to 2,281 against a printed total of 2,283, and the worker columns sum to 1,308,639 against a printed 1,318,189 (short by 9,550). Both gaps are consistent with footnote 1, which puts 2 jointly filed cases in the total without assigning them to an affiliation column. In footnote 5 the figure "156" is legible but the final digit is slightly filled in; "150" cannot be entirely ruled out.

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Source page 39 of NLRB FY1941 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1941, p. 39.
Source page 40 of NLRB FY1941 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1941, p. 40.

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.