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Disposition of Representation Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1959

printed as Table 8 · source page 178 · nlrb1959_p0178_t1

Division and State	All cases	Unfair labor practice cases					Representation cases
Division and State	All cases	All C cases	CA	CB	CC	CD	All R cases	RC	RM	RD
Outlying areas	558	277	189	65	19	4	281	258	20	3
Alaska	48	31	15	8	4	4	17	17	0	0
Hawaii	126	41	30	6	5	0	85	76	7	2
Puerto Rico	374	204	143	51	10	0	170	156	13	1
Canada	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Virgin Islands	10	1	1	0	0	0	9	9	0	0
Total number of cases closed	11,465	100.0	7,825	100.0	2,902	100.0	525	100.0	213	100.0
Before issuance of complaint	10,685	93.2	7,357	94.0	2,723	93.8	406	77.3	199	93.4
After issuance of complaint, before opening of hearing	335	2.9	195	2.5	82	2.8	49	9.3	9	4.2
After hearing opened, before issuance of intermediate report	78	.7	47	.6	22	.8	9	1.7	0	.0
After intermediate report, before issuance of Board decision	49	.4	35	.5	7	.2	6	1.2	1	.5
After Board order adopting intermediate report in absence of exceptions	29	.3	22	.3	4	.2	3	.5	0	.0
After Board decision, before court decree	182	1.6	108	1.4	37	1.3	36	6.9	1	.5
After circuit court decree, before Supreme Court action	93	.8	50	.6	27	.9	13	2.5	3	1.4
After Supreme Court action	14	.1	11	.1	0	.0	3	.6	0	.0
Total number of cases closed	8,840	100.0	7,415	100.0	868	100.0	557	100.0
Before issuance of notice of hearing	4,884	55.2	4,105	55.4	487	56.1	292	52.4
After issuance of notice of hearing, before opening of hearing	1,649	18.7	1,368	18.4	185	21.3	96	17.2
After hearing opened, before issuance of Board decision	427	4.8	363	4.9	37	4.3	27	4.9
After issuance of Board decision	1,880	21.3	1,579	21.3	159	18.3	142	25.5

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1 The States are grouped according to the method used by the Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Commerce
2 See table 1, footnote 1, for definitions of types of cases.
1 See table 1, footnote 1, for definitions of types of cases.
2 Includes cases in which the parties entered into a stipulation providing for Board order and consent decree in the circuit court
3 Includes 42 cases in which a notice of hearing issued pursuant to sec. 10(k) of the act. Of these 42 cases, 29 were closed after notice, 1 was closed after hearing, and 12 were closed after Board decision.
4 Includes either denial of writ of certiorari or granting of writ and issuance of opinion.

102 of 102 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.

Reader’s notes

p. 178. CROP CONTENT: the image is a whole report page (printed page 167, running head "Appendix A") and carries THREE separate tables, not one: (a) the tail of Table 6, "Geographic Distribution of Unfair Labor Practice and Representation Cases Received, Fiscal Year 1959—Continued" (continued from the previous page; only the "Outlying areas" block is on this page); (b) all of Table 7, "Disposition of Unfair Labor Practice Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1959"; (c) all of Table 8, "Disposition of Representation Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1959". Following the rule for stacking panels, I transcribed them one under the other in a single 11-column grid in printed order — Table 6 rows 1-6, Table 7 rows 7-15, Table 8 rows 16-20 — and gave the heading rows once, from Table 6 (the topmost printed heading block). HEADINGS OF THE OTHER TWO TABLES (not reproducible in a single header block, recorded here instead). Table 7, 11 columns matching this grid: stub "Stage of disposition" (spans both levels); then paired spanner headings "All C cases", "CA cases^1", "CB cases^1", "CC cases^1", "CD cases^1", each spanning two columns, over the second-level pair "Number of cases" / "Percent of cases closed". So in this grid columns 1-2 = All C cases, 3-4 = CA cases^1, 5-6 = CB cases^1, 7-8 = CC cases^1, 9-10 = CD cases^1. Table 8 has only 9 printed columns: stub "Stage of disposition" plus "All R cases", "RC cases^1", "RM cases^1", "RD cases^1", each over "Number of cases" / "Percent of cases closed"; its values occupy columns 1-8 of this grid (1-2 All R, 3-4 RC, 5-6 RM, 7-8 RD) and columns 9-10 are left empty for rectangularity, not because anything is blank in the print. FOOTNOTES: the list is in printed order and the markers repeat across the three tables — entries 1-2 belong to Table 6, entries 3-6 to Table 7, and Table 8 carries a single footnote identical to entry 3 ("1 See table 1, footnote 1, for definitions of types of cases."), which I did not repeat a third time. DECIMAL POINTS: this scan drops many printed periods, so percentages print as e.g. "100 0", "93 2", "1 6", and bare "7"/"6"/"3" for ".7"/".6"/".3". I restored the decimal point in every percent cell (and in "U.S." and "sec." in the footnotes). The reading is confirmed arithmetically: each percent column of Table 7 and Table 8 sums to exactly 100.0 as transcribed, and every number column sums to its printed total (Table 7 All C 11,465; CA 7,825; CB 2,902; CC 525; CD 213; Table 8 8,840 / 7,415 / 868 / 557). Table 6's rows also cross-foot exactly. OTHER CELL NOTES: in Table 7, "Before issuance of complaint", CD number, the raised 3 is printed BEFORE the figure ("3 199"); transcribed as "199^3" per the marker rule. In the CD percent column beside "After Board order adopting intermediate report in absence of exceptions" there is a small stray dash above the ".0"; I read it as a speck, not a character. The Table 6 spanner "Representation cases" carries a short raised stroke after it in the scan that does not correspond to any footnote under that table; I treated it as a printing artifact and did not transcribe a marker. Row labels were cleaned of scan noise where the intended word is unambiguous ("Outlying areas", "Hawaii").

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Source page 178 of NLRB FY1959 annual report — Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1959, p. 178.

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.