J. - National Labor Relations Board

VI. REPRESENTATION CASES 47'unions. In the last group are included petitions filed by individualswhich are, for statistical purposes, included in the unaffiliated unions'figures since it may be assumed that many, if not all, of these petitionsactually represented informal employee committees which are, in effect,-unaffiliated labor organizations.The Board, during the year, closed 65.9 percent of the A. F. of L.:and 68.0 percent of the C. I. 0. representation cases on the docket.Comparing the methods by which the A. F. of L. and the C. I. 0.petitions were disposed of, it is found that 47.9 percent of theA. F. of L. petitions and 40.0 percent of the C. I. 0. petitions weredisposed of by settlement without recourse to formal action.The Board issued orders dismissing the petitions in 16.2 percentof the A. F. of L. cases and permitted A. F. of L. unions to withdrawtheir petitions in 17.8 percent of the cases. It dismissed 2.8percent of the C. I. 0. petitions and permitted C. I. 0. unions towithdraw petitions in 21.3 percent of the cases.The Board issued certifications in 79 A. F. of L. representationcases, or 8.5 percent of all the A. F. of L. cases closed. In 44 ofof these *cases the certifications were granted on the-basis of evidenceintroduced at ' the hearings ; in 35 cases they were based on electionsconducted by the Board.. The Board issued certifications in 245C. I. 0. representation cases or 22.7 percent of all C. I. 0. cases.This figure includes 65 certifica tions without elections and 180 certificationsafter elections. 2 The Board dismissed 47 A. F. of L.petitions, or 5.1 percent of all petitions filed by A. F. of L. unionsand 80 C. I. 0. petitions, or 7.4 percent of all petitions filed by-C. I. 0. unions.Hearings were conducted on 114 petitions filed by A. F. of L.unions and on 374 petitions filed by C. I. 0. unions. These figuresrepresent 8.8 and 27.8 percent, respectively, of the representationcases on docket of each of these labor organizations excluding thoseeases which were pending on June 30, 1938, and in which hearings hadalready been conducted.Decisions were issued by the Board in 158 A. F. of L. representationcases, and in 376 C. I. 0. cases, or in 11.6 and 24.6 percent, respectively,of the A. F. of L. and C. I. 0. representation cases awaitingdecision on July 1, 1938, or filed during the subsequent 12-monthperiod:Tables XVII through XIX show the disposition of representationcases on the docket during the fiscal year 1938-39, filed byA. F. of L. unions, C. I. 0. unions, and unaffiliated unions, respectively.2 In a large number of cases where the petitions were filed by C. I. 0. unions, theA. F. of L. affiliates were certified,