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

printed as Table 14 · source pages 41–42 · nlrb1941_p0041_t0

Stitched from pp. 41–42.

All casesCases filed by A. F. of L. affiliatesCases filed by C. I. O. affiliatesCases filed by unaffiliated unionsCases filed by employers
NumberNumber of workers involvedNumberNumber of workers involvedNumberNumber of workers involvedNumberNumber of workers involvedNumberNumber of workers involved
Cases pending, July 1, 1940747401,016345190,591250132,16413271,627196,564
Cases received, July 1940–June 19414,3341,188,0882,016401,0191,768624,453473146,3677311,704
Cases on docket, July 1940–June 19415,081 21,589,104 22,361591,6102,018756,617605217,9949218,268
Cases closed July 1940–June19413,698 31,055,243 31,707448,3151,514450,696402136,5667115,121
Cases closed before formal action2,874 3609,064 31,387236,2281,129248,745297109,4955710,051
Cases settled1,984349,0781,007143,888823166,33613135,368202,941
By recognition of representatives32732,50519812,8621028,1992411,3433101
By consent election1,329270,046608104,597617140,4648421,600172,840
By pay-roll check32846,52720126,42910417,673232,425
Cases dismissed324123,91412139,4517236,30911145,522202,632
Cases withdrawn545125,78424650,95423139,1935027,159174,478
Cases closed otherwise before formal action2110,288131,93536,90751,446
Cases closed after formal action824446,179320212,087385201,95110527.071145,070
Cases closed before hearing8212,829385,164345,277893921,449
Cases settled518,429223,742263,48223161889
By recognition of representatives116896965593
By consent election397,620153,526212,88923161889
By pay-roll check11201120
Cases dismissed5906214122051560
Cases withdrawn253,485131,27281,7954418
Cases closed otherwise1919
Cases closed after hearing275,553121,682123,816355
Cases settled154,57471,51973,029126
By recognition of representatives41,400230021,100
By consent election113,17451,21951,929126
By pay-roll check
Cases dismissed44613611400
Cases withdrawn851821024387229
Cases closed after board decision715427,797270205,241339192,8589426,077123,621
Cases closed by certification518383,576198197,812252158,0985924,15893,508
Cases closed after stipulated election6924,411123,6884818,677688531,161
Cases closed after ordered election432357,727174192,960200139,3475223,07362,347
Other cases closed by certification171,438121,1644741200
Cases dismissed18042,227667,3227632,873351,9193113
Cases closed after stipulated election65,18965,189
Cases closed after ordered election9817,307443,9634912,65735792108
Other cases dismissed7619,731223,3592115,027321,34015
Cases withdrawn141,91259491,818
Cases closed otherwise after board decision382113269
Cases pending, July 1, 19411,383533,861654143,295504305,92120381,428213,147

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  1. 1 Includes 1 case in which unions of different affiliation were joint petitioners.
  2. 2 Includes 4 cases in which unions of different affiliations were joint petitioners.
  3. 3 Includes 3 cases in which unions of different affiliations were joint petitioners.

322 of 333 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.

Reader’s notes

p. 41. The crop is cut off at the bottom: the last printed row visible is "By recognition of representatives" (4 / 1,400 ...), which is clearly mid-table (the "Cases settled after hearing" breakdown continues, and the "Cases closed after hearing" / dismissed / withdrawn lines and the table's footnote block are not on this image). No footnote texts are printed on the crop, so `footnotes` is empty even though markers 1, 2 and 3 are used in the body. Footnote markers are printed as small raised digits to the LEFT of the figure; I have moved them behind a caret after the value as instructed. Where two markers sit together I wrote them after a single caret separated by a space, e.g. "5,081^1 2" on the "Cases on docket" row. Marker legibility: the raised digits on "Cases closed July 1940–June1941", "Cases closed before formal action", "Cases settled" and "By consent election" are small and partly broken in the scan; the second marker could be read as either 3 or 8. I transcribed them all as 3, since 1/2/3 is the self-consistent set used elsewhere in the row block, but a reader should verify against the (not shown) footnote list. Suspected misprint: "Cases closed after formal action", column "Cases filed by unaffiliated unions / Number of workers involved" is printed as 27.071 with a period rather than the digit-grouping comma used everywhere else; transcribed as printed (intended value presumably 27,071). Printing oddity in a label: the "Cases closed July 1940–June1941" row has no space between "June" and "1941" in the original; the parallel rows above print "July 1940–June 1941" with a space. Transcribed as printed. In the same row group, the "Number" cell for employers on "Cases closed after formal action" prints with a serif-heavy first glyph that reads like "I4"; it is 14. "Cases closed before hearing" is set with a wide word space ("Cases closed before hearing"); normalized to a single space. Cells shown as a dash rule (a row of hyphens) under the unaffiliated-union and employer panels are transcribed as "".

p. 42. Continuation page: no column headings are printed on this crop (the table's caption, headings and opening rows are on the preceding page), so header_rows is empty. The grid has 11 columns — the stub plus five apparent pairs of number-of-cases / number-of-employees columns. Footnote markers 2 and 3 are not attached to anything on this crop; they must occur on the preceding page of the table. "Cases dismissed" (first occurrence, 3rd body row): a small raised "2"-like mark sits inside the dash rule of column 7 (the 4th cases column). It is not a value — the printed row total of 4 equals 3 + 1 from columns 3 and 5 — so that cell is transcribed as "". It is most likely a stray/offset mark or a displaced marker; I did not record it as a footnote marker because nothing in that cell is printed to carry it. Glyph calls resolved by arithmetic in this low-quality 1-bit scan, where 9 frequently prints like 0: "Cases closed after stipulated election" (first of the certification group), column 1, read as 69 — 69 + 432 + 17 = 518, the printed certification total; 60 would not reconcile. Likewise 1,929 in "By consent election" column 6 (1,219 + 1,929 + 26 = 3,174), 12,657 in "Cases closed after ordered election" column 6, and 69 in "Cases closed otherwise after board decision" column 6 (13 + 69 = 82). All other rows and columns cross-foot exactly as printed. The one apparent discrepancy is benign and self-documented: in "Cases pending, July 1, 1941", the employee columns sum to 533,791 against a printed total of 533,861 (and the case columns sum to 1,382 against 1,383); footnote 1 accounts for the extra joint-petitioner case, counted in the totals but in no affiliation column.

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Source page 41 of NLRB FY1941 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1941, p. 41.
Source page 42 of NLRB FY1941 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1941, 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.