Anniversary of Anti-Japanese Trade Union Marked

Pyongyang, August 24 (KCNA) -- President Kim Il Sung formed the Anti-Japanese Trade Union in Jilin on Aug. 25, Juche 17 (1928).

The organization was the first revolutionary mass one of the Korean working class whose guiding principle was the Juche idea and which educated broad segments of workers and vigorously aroused them to the struggle to implement the Juche-based revolutionary line.

The President founded the trade union, a unified mass organization of the working class, after the liberation of the country on the basis of the precious tradition of the construction of mass organization created in the flames of the anti-Japanese revolution and thus united the working class as a force.

With his rare ideological and theoretical wisdom and energetic leadership leader Kim Jong Il defended the idea and leadership exploits of the President for the construction of mass organization and brought about a great heyday of the construction of trade union and its activities.

The respected Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un has led the trade union, which developed under the guidance of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, to take the lead in the great advance to invariably preserve the revolutionary nature and bring earlier the final victory of revolution.

Kim Jong Un awarded a precious title of heroic Kim Il Sung-Kim Jong Il working class to the Korean working class.

A meeting to mark the 90th anniversary of the formation of the Anti-Japanese Trade Union took place at the Central Hall of Workers Friday. -0-