The All-Russian Metalworkers Union was a Russian Trade Union founded in 1918. The Metalworkers played a major role in the

Third All Russian Conference of Trade Unions The Third All Russian Conference of Trade Unions(Третья Всероссийская конференция профессиональных союзов) was the first national conference of trade unions held in Russia following the February ...

(20–28 June 1917). They organised their own conference to run in parallel with the larger conference and set up their Provisional Executive Committee at this time. They represented 400,000 workers The first conference was organised in

St Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

in January 1918, with delegates representing 600,000 workers.

Yury Lutovinov Yury Kharitonovich (or Khrisanfovich) Lutovinov (russian: Юрий Харитонович/Хрисантович Лутовинов; 1887–1924) was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and labor leader, of working-class extraction. Lutovinov was bo ...

, a member of the

Workers' Opposition The Workers' Opposition (russian: Рабочая оппозиция) was a faction of the Russian Communist Party that emerged in 1920 as a response to the perceived over-bureaucratisation that was occurring in Soviet Russia. They advocated th ...

was a prominent member of this union.

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{{Authority control Trade unions in Russia Trade unions established in 1918