A film about the 17th Congress of Trade Unions of the USSR. View of the workshop of the Ashgabat cotton factory. Shop workers at work. Chairman of the local committee, delegate to the 17th All-Union Congress of Trade Unions E.M. Ovezov during a meeting of the local committee, while working in a weaving shop. Moscow city. The streets of the town. Participants of the 17th All-Union Congress of Trade Unions in the foyer of the Kremlin Palace of Congresses, during a meeting. Speakers: L. I. Brezhnev, Chairman of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions S. A. Shalaev. Foreign guests of the congress during rallies at one of the factories, talking with workers. Trade union meeting, production processes at the car plant them. Likhachev. Worker at the machine in the shop of a shoe factory. Buying shoes at a shoe store. Doctors during surgery. Children at the holiday of the New Year tree. Ashgabat weaver O. Khalyeva working on a loom. O. Khalyeva's family at home in a new apartment. O. Khalyeva's daughter dances in kindergarten. Miner at work in the mine. Steelmaker at the open-hearth furnace. Builder N. Azlobin at a construction site. Pupils in class at a school in Ashgabat. The tractor delivers feed to the barns. Caring for cows on the farm. Chronicle: workers are writing an application for admission to the trade union. View of the trade union meeting in the railway depot. Visitors to the library. The girls are doing physical exercises. The doctor is examining the child. Children are having lunch at the table [in the orphanage].