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Third
General Congress of Russian Trade Unions
SUMMARY OF PROCEEDINGS.
[This report is taken from the May 7th, 1920, number of the Bulletin, issued by the Petrograd Bureau of the Communist International. Lenin's speech to the Congress is given in the following pages. The resolutions are reproduced in the form given in the Bulletin].
The Third General Congress of the Russian Trade Unions was opened at Moscow on April 6, 1920, under the chairmanship of Tomsky, President of the Central Executive of the Russian Trade Unions. There were present 1,226 delegates with full voting rights and 362 special delegates for consultative purposes. The total number of Trade Unionists represented at the Congress was 4,300,000.
The following table shows the political adhesion of the delegates present at the Conference:—
| Delegates with Full Voting Rights. | Consultative Delegates. | |
| Communists and Sympathisers with the Communist Party | 940 | 240 |
| Mensheviks | 45 | 12 |
| Other political groups | 50 | 19 |
| No political adhesion | 191 | 91 |
| 1,226 | 362 |
The following fraternal delegates conveyed greetings to the Congress on behalf of their respective organisations:—Kalinin, on behalf of the Central Executive of the All-Russia Soviet; Bukharin, on behalf of the Central Executive of the Communist Party; Radek, on behalf of the Third International. A letter of greeting was also read from Zinoviev, President of the Third International.
