The President
"If we are to draw many women into society, we must guarantee more satisfactory conditions for them to work without worries."
Whenever we see Korean women who are respected and loved at their workplaces and homes thanks to the socialist system on the 3.8 international Women's Day, we recall with deep emption the great love of President
There is a story of the warm love and care the President paid to the women workers of the Kim Jong Suk Pyongyang Textile Mill.
One day in January 1973, the President visited the factory and went round the construction site of a chemical fiber spinning factory.
Looking round the site, the President suddenly asked the officials why they had first assembled the equipment in a building that was neither completed nor ensured the temperature.
Having listened to the officials, the President said that the building and assembling could be pushed ahead simultaneously to finish the construction within the deadline, but the quality should not be neglected at the same time and that the equipment should be laid into position after the building was completed and the temperature was maintained. He also taught that the textile mill should be neat and clean because it was used by women.
Then, the President dropped in at the spinning factory, learnt that there were no dust filters to absorb the waste dust, and made a grim face, saying that it would be harmful for the female workers to work in such an environment.
He continued to say that even if they would have to stop the mill's operation, the mill should be built up in a cultured way, befitting women's workplace.
The President gave warm love and care to the workers: he personally paid a visit to the construction site in a great concern for the women's health: he took such measures as to provide the workers on a night shift with snakes and to move their flats nearer to the factory: he sent a bus to the mill for the workers to commute on.
The President asked the officials how many mothers with babies worked at the factory, and personally calculated the number of them even including the ones who had just married, and took measures to increase the number of nurseries and kindergartens and to make them well-equipped so that they could work in peace.
A few months later, in the early dawn of May Day in 1973, the President visited the mill again, went around the worksite where a few female mechanics were working and warmly took the hands of a young mechanic, and asked whether it was difficult to work, and asked when the shift of work took place. He then said with great satisfaction that the workshop had become clearer than before.
When the President went on to the local canteen, he said that the people from Phyongan Province would serve the wheat noodle to their son-in-law, and that it was all right if they boiled them with meat, and he personally tasted it.
The President went on teaching in detail about the supply of subsidiary foods for the women weavers, the capability of the canteen and even the number of the spoons, and gave valuable instructions for the proper operation of the canteen.
Indeed, this was the generous love of the President to all the women across the country, not only to those of the textile industry.
The fatherly love of the President paid to the women workers of the textile mill was continued by the Chairman
