Chairman
"Our Party values our excellent women, whom the fatherly leader Comrade
Today our women, under the leadership of the great Party, are braving the manifold trials and difficulties and fully demonstrating their indomitable mettle on all fronts of building a powerful socialist country.
It is inconceivable apart from the wise leadership of President
One day in June, Juche 37(1948), during his on-site guidance to South Hamgyong Province, President
He dropped in a worker's house and asked the housewife what her husband was doing, how many members there were in her family and how many rooms there were. Looking around the kitchen he again asked her what they used as a fuel. Hearing that they used anthracite, he opened the door of the furnace filled with coal kneaded with mud. Then he told that it was more comfortable and better hygienic to use briquette or oval briquette and continued: At present electricity and coal are much needed to rehabilitate the industry and develop the national economy; so every family should save electricity and economize coal.
Pleased to see her house kept neatly, he noted that when houses and villages are kept clean, dwellers are able to be free from illness and feel refreshed to work, and so everybody should make it a habit to always keep them in a hygienic and cultured way.
Approaching to the table, he saw schoolchildren's textbooks ranked on a bookstand. He learned the number of her children studying at school and told her to bring them up soundly as they represented the future of Korea and valuable successors. When he knew that kitchen utensils, bookcase, sewing machine and other household goods were purchased after the liberation of the country, he expressed great satisfaction to say that her family was relatively well-off.
Looking up to President
He stressed with conviction that the people had themselves set the national economic plan and implemented it by their own efforts for the first time in the history of the country and their life would become further improved after their fulfillment of the two-year national economic plan in the future, and instructed earnestly.
He also added that women should not confine themselves to doing only housework, but make a tangible contribution to the building of a rich and powerful, independent and sovereign state like men so that our country could develop further and become richer which is also a good deed for women themselves.
He gave four tasks to the housewives of workers' families in Hungnam: the first was to manage their economic life assiduously and meticulously, the second was to keep their houses and villages in a hygienic and cultured way, the third was to bring up their children to be successors to the revolution and the last was that the housewives should turn out in the building of a prosperous nation like men.
