Seminar Held on 70th Anniversary of GFTUK

Pyongyang, November 23 (KCNA) -- A seminar was held by officials and members of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea (GFTUK) on the occasion of its 70th birthday at the Central Hall of Workers on Monday.
    President Kim Il Sung formed the GFTUK on Nov. 30, Juche 34 (1945).
    Present at the seminar were officials concerned and members of the federation.
    They heard the papers dealing with the tasks and ways of adding glory to the leadership exploits Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il performed by forming and developing the GFTUK, and bringing about a fresh change in the work of the trade unions under the guidance of Marshal

Kim Jong Un.
    Ju Yong Gil, chairman of the Central Committee of the GFTUK, Kong Son Il, manager and editor-in-chief of the Working People's Organizations Publishing House, and other speakers said in the papers that the proud path covered by the GFTUK over 70 years represents a glorious history in which a shining example was set in building a revolutionary and militant mass political organization under the warm care of the peerlessly great men of Mt. Paektu.
    They noted the GFTUK, whose origin was provided in the flames of the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle, has creditably fulfilled its mission and duty before the times and revolution since its formation.
    The development of the GFTUK into a well-organized militant and revolutionary political organization constitutes a shining example to be specially recorded in the history of the building of mass political organizations of workers, they stressed. -0

Not let His Death Be In Vain

Chun Tae-il, a south Korean worker, burnt himself to death in protest against the anti-worker policy of the south Korean authorities on Nov. 13, 1970, forty-five years ago.

When November comes, a memorial service takes place before the grave of Chun Tae-il and the workers and the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions hold a rally to denounce anti-worker policy of the south Korean authorities. However, his desire has not yet been realized, instead, the plight of workers become miserable.

While making the unions toothless, the south Korean authorities have harshly suppressed the workers’ struggle for existence. They are trying to enact a retrogressive labor law to bring profit to the conglomerate and put the people under the screw.

The Public Health and Medical Trade Union held a meeting in Seoul on Oct. 29 to declare an action against the authorities' anti-worker policy and for workers' rights to existence.

The government and business groups have made desperate bid to suppress the workers and they would respond the present regime’s anti-worker-policy with a general strike, it declared.

A resolution was read out there.

It said that the authorities' retrogressive revision of the structure of the labor mark is a great disaster as it worsens the situation of employment and payment, labor conditions and labor-management relations.

The "measure for normalizing public organizations" serves as means for havocking the public nature of healthcare and threatening the workers' rights to existence, it censured.

700 unionists of North Jeolla Province under the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions held a rally on Oct. 30 to protest against worker reform and rice import of the south Korean authorities.

In a resolution the organizations branded the regime as the undemocratic regime against workers, peasants and common people as it is keen on making the majority of people poor and bringing profits to a handful of plutocrats. They demanded the regime step down at once as it turned south Korea into a dark society without hope and future.

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KCTU Declares General Strike

Pyongyang, September 20 (KCNA) -- The south Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) held a rally in Kyonggi Province on Sept. 17 at which it declared to launch a general strike against the authorities' moves for retrogressively revise labor market structure, according to Chamsesang, an internet paper of south Korea.
The organization condemned the "government" for pushing forward the retrogressive revision of the labor market structure under the plea of the "labor reform".
In order to check this, the workers across south Korea should launch a powerful general strike all at once, it held.
It noted that the KCTU will fight together with the people in protest against the authorities' move to kill workers. -0
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S. Korean Authorities Slammed for Trying to Railroad "Bill on Human Rights in North" through "National Assembly"

    Pyongyang, September 19 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Central Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea in a statement Saturday denounced the south Korean authorities for trying to railroad the "bill on human rights in the north" through the "National Assembly."
    Such move is a heinous confrontation racket prompted by a sinister political purpose to bring down the workers' world of the DPRK, the spokesman said, and went on:
    There can be no "human rights issue" in the DPRK where everything serves the working people and which gives top priority to the wishes and interests of the people, regards them as absolute and realizes all their dreams and ideal on the highest level.
    The south Korean authorities should set right the human rights issue of south Korea, the veritable hell of the working people, before talking about "human rights" of someone.
    South Korean workers and other people are being driven into suicide, denied even elementary right to existence under the worst working condition, subject to unemployment and poverty, to say nothing of political freedom and right.
    It is nonsense and height of shamelessness for such human rights abusers to talk about "human rights" of someone.
    The south Korean authorities' moves to make the "bill on human rights in the north" a law is a revelation of their base and vicious intention to cover up their unpopular rule and poor human rights performance and suppress and block the mass struggle of the workers to protect their human rights.
    They should stop running riot, clearly understanding the spirit and stamina of the workers of the DPRK who never pardon those who dare slander and hurt the dignity and social system of the DPRK and try to destroy its cradle of creation and happiness. -0-

S. Korean Workers Demand Stop to Retrogressive Revision of Labor Market Structure

 Pyongyang, September 16 (KCNA) -- South Korean workers in the public field of south Korea including those of the public transport trade union, public health and medical service trade union and financial trade union held a rally in Seoul on Sept. 12 in protest against the authorities' moves for the retrogressive revision of the labor market structure.
    They accused the present regime of unilaterally pressing for the retrogressive revision aimed at easy lay-off, cut-down of wages and expansion of part-time jobs.
    They urged the need to reform big businesses before the reform of the labor market structure, saying the diversion of even some of fund possessed by the big businesses at present will create lots of jobs.
    If the big businesses and the "government" continue to move to retrogressively reform the labor market, workers will launch a general strike against them, they warned. -0-

Park Geun Hye Should Be Buried in Cemetery as Soon as Possible: Spokesman for DPRK Organization

  Pyongyang, August 19 (KCNA) -- A spokesman for the Joint National Organization of Working People issued a statement on Wednesday denouncing Park Geun Hye, a trouble-maker of the nation, for spitting out venoms in her "address marking August 15".
    She said in an address the north must follow the change of the international community, the statement noted, and went on:
    What she uttered is nothing but sophism of a person without elementary faculty of judging her fellow countrymen.
    What should be changed is none other than south Korea, a colony of the U.S. as it has to serve and follow the U.S. whether it likes or not, and Park Geun Hye as she is steeped in confrontation with fellow countrymen to the marrow of her bones.
    What all the Koreans want and expect is to wipe out sycophants and traitors such as Park from the members of the nation to the last one.
    Park also cried out for "purge". Purge is an essential means for the puppet forces to prop up their regime as they resort to repression and bestial suppression.
    Park grumbled that the north is "wrecking peace and going against south-north integration" while not responding to the "proposal for dialogue".
    If she had been sincere in her proposal for dialogue, she would have buckled down to creating an atmosphere for it.
    From the outset of the year, Park and her group, however, have escalated confrontation totally going against the resumption of dialogue.
    This time, she trumpeted about the inviolable nuclear issue of the DPRK once again. Not only all the Koreans but the world public regards the DPRK's nuclear deterrence as a treasured sword for protecting the peace of the country and security of the nation.
    Only Park is denying this universally accepted truth.
    She vociferated about the trite "north's deed" peppered with intrigues and fabrications. She unhesitatingly said that the north is "threatening security" through "cyber attack".
    She wagged her venomous tongue to let loose a spate of invectives such as "provocation and threat" and to say the north will "invite isolation and ruin by itself".
    It is Park who does not know even the conception of provocation and threat.
    Though belatedly, she should study the conceptions of provocation and threat and acknowledge herself to have been a chieftain committing provocation and threat on this land.
    She talked rubbish that "an opportunity is being given now", trumpeting about the July 4 joint statement.
    We would like to ask Park who dared talk about the July 4 joint statement.
    Does she sympathize with the principle of independence that calls for settling all the issues arising between the north and the south, large and small, from the stand of attaching importance and giving priority to the nation without dependence on foreign forces and free from their interference?
    Does she approve the principle of peaceful reunification that reflects the patriotic spirit of protecting the living place of fellow countrymen from war disaster and guaranteeing the co-prosperity of the nation?
    Has she willingness to accept the spirit of By Our Nation Itself and the principle of great national unity, which is the nation's mode of existence the key point of which is that division leads to ruin and reunification to powerful nation, and engine of improving north-south relations?
    If she stands before the solemn questions of all Koreans, she will get ablush as she has so far become all the more hysteric going against all of them.
    Resentful is that she talked crafty venoms as if she were interested in settling the issue of "separated families" which had already gone bankrupt. Lurking behind this is her ill purpose to calm down the people's mindset against her self-opinionated and shameless unpopular rule.
    This time, she talked nonsense that she would create "world ecology peace park" in the Demilitarized Zone to make it a "new axis for realizing cooperation".
    Nonsensical is her call for creating the "peace park" in the biggest hotspot in the world, where the worst confrontation persists and a war may break out any moment.
    She also made all kinds of spurious remarks.
    Explicitly speaking once again, she should set right the bad situation in south Korea before caring for and discussing the life of someone.
    No matter how glittering make-up she may put, it is too late to prevent the foul smell from reeking off from her body interwoven with sycophancy, treachery, confrontation and hostility.
    What she should do for the nation is to leave Chongwadae, the doghouse of the U.S., shut her unshapely mouth and get her crime-ridden body buried in the ceremony at an early date. -0-

79th Plenary Meeting of C.C., GFTUK Elects New Chairman

Pyongyang, August 17 (KCNA) -- The 79th Plenary Meeting of the Central Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea (GFTUK) took place here Monday.
    The meeting discussed an organizational matter.
    Chairman Hyon Sang Ju was relieved from his post for his old age and Ju Yong Gil was elected chairman of the Central Committee of the GFTUK. -0-