NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD

V. COMPLAINT CASES
A.. STATISTICAL SUMMARY OF COMPLAINT CASES
Complaint cases on docket July 1, 1937 to June 30, 1938.—On June
30, 1937, there were pending before the Board 1,406 complaint cases,
involving 639,693 workers.' These cases were, therefore, carried over
on July 1, 1937, from the preceding fiscal year. Durmg the fiscal
year 1937-38, 6,807 charges, involving 1,003,346 workers, were filed
with the regional offices or directly with the Board. = Thus a total
of 8,213 complaint cases, involving 1,643,039 workers '
was on the
dockets of the Board during the entire period covered by this report.
Analysis of charges on docket July 1, 1937, to June 30, 1938.—
Section 8 of the act lists five types of employer activity which are designated
as unfair labor practices. Subsection 1 of this section so designates
employer activity which interferes with, restrains, or coerces employees
in the exercise of the rights enumerated in section 7 of the
act. The Board has ruled that an employer who engages in any of
the unfair labor practices described in subsections 2, 3, 4, or 5 of
section 8, has by doing so, interfered with, restrained, or coerced his
employees in the exercise of their rights as defined in section 7, and
has thus engaged in an unfair labor practice within the meaning
of section 8 (1). Therefore, all of the charges received by the Board
alleged an unfair labor practice within the meaning of section 8 (1) .
Section 8 (2) of the act prohibits domination of or interference
with the formation or administration of labor organizations (the
"company union" section) ; section 8 (3) prohibits discrimination
because of union activity; section 8 (4) prohibits discrimination because
of the filing of charges or testifying under the act; and section
8 (5) deals with refusal to bargain collectively.
A charge filed with the Board may allege the violation of one or
more of the subsections of section 8.
Table VI shows the number of cases received by the regional offices
and by the Board, as well as the analysis of cases by the various
charges of unfair labor practices and the number of cases which included
any one of the five subsections of section 8. Table VII contains
a similar breakdown for all cases pending on June 30, 1937.
1 The pending figures on June 30, 1937. as given in the Board's Second Annual Report
(ch. VI, p. 20), were 1,362 cases and 694,720 workers. For explanation of this revision
see footnote 1, p. 18, supra.
2 Two charges, involving 300 workers, were filed directly with the Board. the Board
having granted special permission, under the rules and regulations, for such filing.
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