The quantitative growth of the Russian trades unions since the first Conference, notwithstanding the fact that the counter-revolution has snatched away a number of provinces (Siberia, Finland, the Donetz region, Caucasia, etc.), has resulted in a membership of 3,422,000 whereas only 2,500,000 members were represented at the First Conference. Thus, within one year the membership increased by almost one million. According to the All-Russian industrial groupings, the number of union members represented at the conference was distributed as follows:
| Metal trades | 400,000 |
| Tanners | 225,000 |
| Members of Trade-Industrial Union (probably sales clerks) | 200,000 |
| Workers engaged in the food industry | 140,000 |
| Tailors | 150,000 |
| Chemists | 80,000 |
| Architectural and building trades | 120,000 |
| Wood-working trades | 70,000 |
| Printers | 60,000 |
| Railroad workers | 450,000 |
| Glass and chinaware workers | 24,000 |
| Water transportation workers | 200,000 |
| Postal-telegraphic employees | 100,000 |
| Sugar industry | 100,000 |
| Textile workers (according to data furnished by the local union) | 711,000 |
| Firemen | 50,000 |
| Oil miners and refiners | 30,000 |
| Chauffeurs | 98,000 |
| Bank employees | 70,000 |
| Domestic help | 50,000 |
| Waiters (in taverns) | 50,000 |
| Cigar and cigarette makers | 30,000 |
| Drug clerks | 14,000 |
| Foresters | 5,000 |
According to the data furnished by the committee on credentials, there were 748 delegates at the Conference with the right to vote, and 131 with a voice. The political composition of the Conference (according to the results of an informal inquiry) was as follows: 374 Communists, 75 sympathizers, 15 Left Socialists-Revolutionists, 5 Anarchists, 18 Internationalists, 4 representatives of the Bund, 29 United Social-Democrats, 23 non-partisans, and 236 delegates did not state their party affiliations. The party registration bureaus showed entirely different results, which have been confirmed by the vote cast for the main resolutions. Thus, at the Communist bureau 600 persons have registered (this includes party members having the right to vote, sympathizers, and people with a voice only, but no vote), the Internationalists had 50 persons, and the United Social-Democrats had 70.
Geographically the delegates were represented as follows:
| Second | First | |||
| From Unions | Conference | Conference | ||
| The Northern Region | 100 | delegates | 69 | delegates |
| The Central Region | 320 | " | 112 | " |
| The Volga Region | 144 | " | 25 | " |
| The Ural Region | 2 | " | 13 | " |
| The Southern Region | 31 | " | 62 | " |
| The Western Region | 30 | " | .. | " |
| From Soviets and Northern Region | 29 | " | ||
| Central Region | 70 | " | ||
| Ural Region | 3 | " | ||
| Southern Region | 6 | " | ||
| Western Region | 14 | " | ||
| Volga Region | 30 | " |
The local Soviets of the Professional Unions were represented according to regions, as follows:
| Central Region | 36 cities | 1,004,500 persons |
| Northern Region | 16 cities | 396,000 persons |
| Volga Region | 19 cities | 499,300 persons |
| Western Region | 7 cities | 73,800 persons |
| Southern Region | 4 cities | 64,000 persons |
| —————— | ————————— | |
| Total | 82 cities | 2,037,600 persons |
| At the preceding Conference | 49 cities | 1,888,353 persons |
From June 16th to 25th, 1919, during the nine days of its work, the second All-Russian Congress of Trades Unions solved the fundamental questions of the Russian professional (trades union) movement. The Conference more precisely defined the place of the professional trades unions in a proletarian state, it has more concretely outlined the interrelations of the trades unions with the organs of administration and, above all, with the People’s Commissariat of Labor. All other questions, such as the regulation of working hours and wages, the safeguarding of labor and the social insurance of laborers, the organization of production, and workmen’s control have been solved on the basis of the experience of the past year.
The Russian professional unions entered upon a new era of proletarian activity. And the unions are already facing practical problems—to put into practice the principles and resolutions adopted and in all phases of its work to follow one direction, that of still further strengthening its power, and participating more closely in establishing the might of proletarian Russia.