Even if we take into account only the militant portion of the organized proletariat, the Communist Party is shown to represent only a minority of it. _Economicheskaya Zhizn_, October 15, 1919, published an elaborate statistical analysis of the First Trades-Union Conference of the Moscow Government. We learn that in the Union of Textile Workers, the largest union represented, of 131 delegates present only 27, or 20.6 per cent., declared themselves to be Communists; while 94, or 71.7 per cent., declared themselves to be non-party, and 3 declared that they were Mensheviki. Of the 21 delegates of the Union of Compositors 13, or 62.3 per cent., declared themselves to be Mensheviki; 7, or 33 per cent., to be non-party, and only 1 registered as a Communist. The Union of Soviet employees naturally sent a majority of delegates who registered as Communists, 45 out of 67 delegates, or 67 per cent., so registering themselves. The unions were divided into four classes or categories, as follows: _Category_ _No. of _No. of Members Delegates_ Represented_ _First_: Workers employed in large industries 287 266,660 _Second_: Workers employed in small industries 113 806,200 _Third_: “Mixed unions” of Soviet employees, etc 197 204,100 _Fourth_: Intellectual workers’ unions 183 132,800 If we take the first two categories as representing the industrial proletariat as a whole we get 1,072,860 proletarians represented by 400 delegates; in the third and fourth categories, representing Soviet officials, Intellectuals, and “petty bourgeois elements,” we get 380 delegates representing 336,900 members. Thus the industrial proletariat secured only about one-third of the representation in proportion to membership secured by the other elements. Representation was upon this basis: _Category_ _One Delegate for Every_ _First_: Workers in large industries 610 workers _Second_: Workers in small industries 1,427 “ _Third_: “Mixed unions”--Soviet employees, city employees, etc 247 “ _Fourth_: Intellectuals 237 “