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Light Industrial Workers Respond to Call of Joint Editorial

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

   Pyongyang, January 15 (KCNA) - Working people of the light industrial factories of the DPRK are striving hard to increase the variety and quality of products in response to the joint New Year editorial's call for decisively improving the production of consumer goods. The Ministry of the Light Industry makes each factory push ahead with the work of putting production process on the latest science and technology to suit its actual conditions, following the example of the Pyongyang Textile Machine Plant in successfully building the technical processes for the streamlined production of a new kind of weaving machine.
    The workers of the Sariwon Textile Machine Plant have set about the work of renovating the metal needle band production process and those of the Pyongyang Textile Mill the technological updating of dyeing and weaving preparatory processes.
    The knitting factories throughout the country have taken thoroughgoing measures to provide raw materials to the production of more knitted goods and fabrics and the Songyo and Kanggye Knitting Factories have already woven a large amount of various quality goods.
    The workers of the Wonsan Shoes Factory and the Sinuiju and Chongjin Footwear Factories are striving hard to produce various kinds of footwear that please the people's tastes.
    A drive for increased production of better velvet, polychromatic and other silk fabrics is taking place at the Nyongbyon and Pakchon Silk Mills.
    The fulfillment of daily silk thread production assignments have been reported from the silk-reeling mills in Hamhung, Huichon and Pyongyang.
    Production has been put on a normal track at the essential foodstuff factories in Pyongyang, Kanggye, Sinuiju and other parts of the country through technical updating of production processes.