National Meeting Marks Anniversary of Formation of Anti-Japanese Trade Union

National Meeting Marks Anniversary of Formation of Anti-Japanese Trade Union

Pyongyang, August 26 (KCNA) -- A national meeting took place at the Central Workers' Hall on Monday to mark the 80th anniversary of the formation of the Anti-Japanese Trade Union by President Kim Il Sung.
Present there were Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, Kim Jung Rin, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Ro Tu Chol, vice-premier of the Cabinet, leading officials of the working people's organizations and officials and members of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea (GFTUK).
Kim Pyong Phal, chairman of the Central Committee of the GFTUK, said in a report that the Anti-Japanese Trade Union formed by Kim Il Sung in Jilin on August 25, Juche 17 (1928) was the first revolutionary mass organization of the Korean working class which educated and awakened the broad masses of workers and energetically mobilized them to the struggle for carrying out the Juche-oriented revolutionary line, guided by the immortal Juche idea.
The reporter recalled that no sooner had the President founded the Party after the liberation of the country on the basis of the precious tradition of building mass organizations established in the crucible of the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle than he formed the trade union, a unified mass organization of the working class, adding that he thus united the working class, a main motive force and core unit of the revolution, as an organized force.
He went on:
Under the wise leadership and meticulous care of the President the trade union powerfully aroused the working class and members of the trade union in each annul of the arduous revolution after its formation including the period of building a new country, the Fatherland Liberation War, the postwar reconstruction and socialist construction and thus performed shining feats in the struggles to resolutely protect the Party and the leader, defend the country and build a socialist power.
The working class and the members of the trade union could perform exploits in the drive for building a great prosperous powerful nation, firmly armed with the great Juche idea, the Songun idea and united close around the Party and the leader. All this is the fruition of the wise leadership of Kim Jong Il.
The reporter stressed that thanks to the Songun leadership of Kim Jong Il a Juche-oriented great prosperous powerful nation will appear on this land and only victory and glory are always in store for the trade union, a powerful transmission belt of the Party.