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Disposition of representation cases closed during the fiscal years 1936-47, by stage and method

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Stage and method	1936-47	Percent of cases closed	1936	1937	1938	1939	1940	1941	1942	1943	1944	1945	1946	1947	July 1-Aug. 21, 1947
Total, 1936-47	57,852	100.0	98	571	3,105	2,339	2,690	3,698	6,285	5,928	6,507	6,790	7,981	10,442	1,418
Before formal action, total	42,872	74.1	86	502	2,503	1,701	1,966	2,874	4,875	4,218	4,352	4,444	5,911	8,331	1,109
Adjusted	28,161	48.7	52	373	1,589	952	969	1,984	3,420	2,879	2,980	3,047	3,877	5,522	517
Recognition	3,196	5.5	29	194	582	257	189	327	404	205	196	187	238	356	32
Consent election and cross check	24,520	42.4	23	179	1,007	695	780	1,657	3,016	2,674	2,784	2,860	3,571	4,825	449
Prehearing election	445	.8											68	341	36
Withdrawn	10,430	18.0	29	107	645	480	677	545	1,027	1,023	898	945	1,594	2,134	326
Dismissed	4,214	7.3	5	22	269	264	314	324	428	315	474	451	426	657	265
Closed otherwise	67	.1	0	0	0	5	6	21	0	1	0	1	14	18	1
After formal action, total	14,980	25.9	12	69	602	638	724	824	1,410	1,710	2,155	2,346	2,070	2,111	309
Before Board decision	2,006	3.5	5	25	189	130	104	109	203	166	225	236	316	251	47
Adjusted	1,011	1.8	2	12	60	45	42	66	98	114	124	127	151	146	24
Recognition	119	.2	2	12	21	10	8	15	13	14	7	6	6	5	0
Consent election and cross check	854	1.5	0	0	39	35	34	51	85	100	117	121	138	116	18
Prehearing election	38	.1											7	25	6
Withdrawn	820	1.4	1	7	70	66	54	33	100	48	79	101	150	95	16
Dismissed	174	.3	2	6	59	19	8	9	5	4	22	8	15	10	7
Closed otherwise	1	[2]	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
After Board decision	12,974	22.4	7	44	413	508	620	715	1,207	1,544	1,930	2,110	1,754	1,860	262
Certified	9,649	16.7	6	43	342	364	414	518	949	1,243	1,469	1,487	1,268	1,360	186
Stipulated election and cross check	1,883	3.3						69	199	223	263	297	351	442	39
Prehearing election and stipulation	135	.2											27	94	14
Ordered election	7,117	12.3	5	37	233	252	370	432	743	1,014	1,203	1,187	875	674	92
Prehearing election and Board decision	205	.4											14	150	41
Without election	309	.5	1	6	109	112	44	17	7	6	3	3	1	0	0
Dismissed	2,893	5.0	1	1	71	144	168	180	217	245	425	529	423	422	67
Stipulated election and cross check	400	.7						6	15	18	38	73	84	142	24
Ordered election	1,320	2.3	1	1	25	72	66	98	102	129	180	243	213	172	18
Prehearing election and Board decision	22	[2]											2	16	4
Without election	1,151	2.0	0	0	46	72	102	76	100	98	207	213	124	92	21
Withdrawn	411	.7	0	0	0	0	30	14	41	54	32	92	61	78	9
Otherwise	21	[2]	0	0	0	0	8	3	0	2	4	2	2	0	0

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1 Including the period July 1-Aug. 21, 1947.
2 Less than 0.1 percent.

353 of 353 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out. 4 cells break a sum: 'Before Board decision', column 2: prints 2,006, the subtotals in rows 'Adjusted' to 'Dismissed' add to 2,005; 'Before Board decision', column 9: prints 109, the subtotals in rows 'Adjusted' to 'Dismissed' add to 108; 'After formal action, total', column 2: prints 14,980, the subtotals in rows 'Before Board decisio' to 'After Board decision' add to 14,981; 'After formal action, total', column 9: prints 824, the subtotals in rows 'Before Board decisio' to 'After Board decision' add to 825.

Reader’s notes

p. 95. 16 columns: stub, "1936-47^1", "Percent of cases closed", the 12 fiscal years 1936-1947, and "July 1-Aug. 21, 1947". Only one heading level is printed. Doubtful cell: row "Prehearing election" (the one under "Adjusted" in the "Before formal action" block), column 1946. The glyph is ambiguous between 66 and 68 at this scan resolution; transcribed as 68 because the row's 1936-47 total (445 = 68+341+36) and the 1946 "Adjusted" figure (3,877 = 238+3,571+68) both require 68, whereas 66 fails both. Every other cell in the table reconciles exactly with its row and column totals, so no other value is in doubt. Dash rules (long broken rules spanning the early-year columns, marking "not applicable") appear in the "Prehearing election", "Stipulated election and cross check", "Prehearing election and stipulation", and "Prehearing election and Board decision" rows; they are transcribed as empty cells. "Stipulated election and cross check" (both the Certified and the Dismissed instance) has its rule over 1936-1940 and data from 1941 on; the four prehearing rows have their rule over 1936-1945 and data only from 1946 on. The "Percent of cases closed" cells reading "(2)" are a parenthesized raised footnote reference (footnote 2, "Less than 0.1 percent."), printed in place of a percentage; they are given as "(2)". The footnote marker printed beside the second footnote line reproduces as a smudged raised character but is the superscript 2 referenced by those cells. Row labels are indented to show hierarchy; indentation is not preserved in the stub. Several labels repeat at different levels ("Adjusted", "Recognition", "Consent election and cross check", "Prehearing election", "Withdrawn", "Dismissed", "Closed otherwise", "Stipulated election and cross check", "Ordered election", "Prehearing election and Board decision", "Without election"), so the rows must be read in printed order. "Prehearing election and Board decision" under "Certified" is printed with a wide word space; normalized to a single space.

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Source page 95 of NLRB FY1947 annual report — Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1947, p. 95.

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.