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National Meeting to Mark 60th Anniversary of GFTUK

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

    Pyongyang, December 1 (KCNA) -- A national meeting was held at the People's Palace of Culture on Wednesday to mark the 60th anniversary of the foundation of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea. A congratulatory message sent by the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea to the organizations of the GFTUK and its members on this occasion was conveyed at the meeting.
    The WPK Central Committee in the congratulatory message said that over the last 60 years the GFTUK has successfully discharged its honorable mission and duty of educating the workers and union members in a revolutionary manner to rally them close around the Party and powerfully mobilizing them in the revolutionary struggle and construction, while traversing the road of the worthwhile struggle shining with victory and glory under the leadership of the Party and the leader.
    The message expressed the firm belief that all the trade unions and union members will single-mindedly rally around leader Kim Jong Il to successfully carry out their revolutionary duty in the struggle for the victory of the cause of the Songun revolution, thus repaying great expectation of the Party with loyalty.
    Ryom Sun Gil, chairman of the Central Committee of the GFTUK, in a report said: Right after founding the revolutionary party on the basis of the tradition of the anti-Japanese revolution, President Kim Il Sung set forth the policy of founding the trade union, a unified mass political organization of the working class, established labor unions across the country and, on the basis of organizational and ideological strengthening of their ranks, declared to the whole world the foundation of the GFTUK on Nov. 30, Juche 34(1945).
    The foundation of the GFTUK made it possible for the workers of Korea to have the only militant and mass political organization for the first time in history to victoriously push forward the cause of building a new society, form a powerful driving force of revolution and make a worthwhile history of independence and prosperity under the leadership of the Party.
    The history of building trade unions which were founded and strengthened by Kim Il Sung is being brilliantly carried forward and developed by Kim Jong Il, who brightly indicated the road ahead of trade unions in each period and at each stage of the developing revolution.
    Under the energetic leadership of the two leaders trade unions have been radically facelifted and their militant might has been incomparably strengthened and they have developed into militant ranks of single-minded unity, the organization of the Songun revolution remaining loyal to the Party's leadership.
    The reporter called upon all the trade union officials and members to rally around Kim Jong Il single-mindedly to successfully accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche under the banner of the Songun revolution and wage a dynamic struggle to achieve the endless prosperity and development of the country.
    At the end of the meeting, a performance was given by the workers art squad of the Central Committee of the GFTUK.
    Present at the meeting were Kim Jung Rin, secretary of the Central Committee of the WPK, Ro Tu Chol, vice-premier of the Cabinet, officials concerned, officials of the Central Committee of the GFTUK and provincial, city and county committees and model union members.
    Also on hand were the members of the delegation of the Union of Korean Teachers and School Clerks in Japan on a visit to the socialist homeland.