NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1946 › War Labor Disputes Act cases received, closed, pending, polls conducted, and employers involved, during the fiscal years 1944, 1945, and 1946
| Total | Fiscal year 1944 | Fiscal year 1945 | July-December 1945 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cases received | 4,601 | 1,089 | 1,284 | 2,228 |
| Cases closed | 4,176 | 1,035 | 1,183 | 1,958 |
| Method of disposition: | ||||
| Polls conducted | 1,571 | 232 | 404 | 935 |
| Withdrawn | 2,249 | 688 | 727 | 834 |
| Closed otherwise | 356 | 115 | 52 | 189 |
| Cases pending end of period | 425 | 54 | 155 | 425 |
| Results of polls: | ||||
| Total number of polls | 2,168 | 381 | 573 | 1,214 |
| Voted in favor of interruption of work | 1,850 | 323 | 482 | 1,045 |
| Voted against interruption of work | 318 | 58 | 91 | 169 |
| Total number eligible to vote | 2,923,655 | 129,661 | 738,972 | 2,055,022 |
| Total valid votes cast | 1,926,811 | 98,224 | 540,242 | 1,288,345 |
| Votes in favor of interruption of work | 1,593,937 | 69,978 | 442,769 | 1,081,190 |
| Votes against interruption of work | 332,874 | 28,246 | 97,473 | 207,155 |
| Number of employers involved | 26,630 | 2,885 | 11,994 | 11,751 |
52 of 56 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out. 1 cell breaks a sum: 'Cases pending end of period', column 2: prints 425, columns 3 to 5 add to 634.
p. 126. Five columns: stub plus Total, Fiscal year 1944, Fiscal year 1945, July-December 1945^1. Only one printed heading level; the stub column has no heading, so cell 0 of the header row is empty. Arithmetic check (reported, not applied — all cells are as printed): the Total column equals the sum of the three period columns in every row except "Cases pending end of period", where Total is 425 while 54+155+425 = 634. There 425 appears to be an end-of-period stock carried over from the final period (July-December 1945) rather than a sum, which is internally consistent for a pending-cases line; nothing was altered. "Method of disposition:" and "Results of polls:" are section lines carrying a label and no values; their value cells are empty. Scan artifacts, all resolved with confidence: in "Total valid votes cast" / Total the first digit group is marred by a stray mark that prints like a semicolon ("1, 926; 811"); it reads 1,926,811, which the column sum confirms. The superscript markers on "Total number of polls" (2) and "Voted against interruption of work" (3) are small and lightly inked but legible, and both match the footnote text beneath the table (footnote 2 names 1,571 cases and 2,168 voting units, matching the "Polls conducted" and "Total number of polls" rows). Within "Results of polls:", the rows "Voted in favor/against interruption of work" count polls (1,850+318 = 2,168, the total number of polls), while the later "Votes in favor/against" rows count individual votes (1,593,937+332,874 = 1,926,811, the total valid votes cast). The two pairs are indented alike in the original and are easy to confuse; both are transcribed with their own wording. The caption, the footnote rules and the partially cropped page number at the lower right ("91") are omitted as instructed.
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.