Anti-Japanese Trade Union, Origin of Korean Labor Movement

Anti-Japanese Trade Union, Origin of Korean Labor Movement

Pyongyang, August 25 (KCNA) -- Eighty years have passed since President Kim Il Sung organized the Anti-Japanese Trade Union, the origin of the Korean labor movement.
From the first days after he embarked on the road of revolution in his early years, he attached great significance to awakening and organizing popular masses and made energetic efforts to rally people from all walks of life in an organized way.
The President moved the theatre of his revolutionary activity to Jilin where there were many factories, small and large, at that time but there was not a well-regulated organization for the workers.
It was all that the Hansong Association was organized in the spring of 1927 to help Koreans find job and to promote convenience in their life.
With the analysis of the urgent revolutionary demand and serious lessons of the Korean labor movement, the President put forward a policy of building a revolutionary organization such as an anti-Japanese trade union among Korean workers and dispatched core members of the Anti-Imperialist Youth League to various factories to unite workers in a revolutionary organization.
Basing himself on the preparations, he announced the foundation of the Anti-Japanese Trade Union, a new type of revolutionary mass organization of the Korean working class on August 25, Juche 17 (1928).
With the foundation of the trade union, the working class of Korea came to have its true mass organization and was closely rallied around it and thus discharged its historical mission in the sacred struggle for national and class emancipation under the leadership of the President. The foundation thus marked the origin of building a revolutionary mass organization of the working class.
No sooner had he founded the revolutionary Party after the liberation of the country than he formed the trade union, a unified mass political organization of the working class and wisely led it so that it became the positive supporter to the Party and thorough implementer of the party policy.
Today under the guidance of the Workers' Party of Korea, the might of the trade union has increased incomparably and grown to be single-minded militant ranks and a Songun revolutionary organization which is true to the Songun leadership of Kim Jong Il.