Pyongyang,
May 27 (KCNA) –
The
respected Comrade Kim Jong Un sent a letter "Let the Trade Unions Become
Advance Units That Open Up a New Era of Upsurge in Socialist Construction in
the Vanguard" to those attending the Eighth Congress of the General
Federation of Trade Unions of Korea on May 25.
The
full text of the letter is as follows: Amid the daily soaring revolutionary
enthusiasm and fighting spirit of the working people across the country, who
have turned out in support of the great fighting programmes put forward by the
Eighth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea, the Eighth Congress of the
General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea has been convened.
This
congress is very meaningful in fully demonstrating the revolutionary character
and united strength of our working class who are rallied firmly behind the WPK
and ensuring that the trade union members make redoubled efforts in promoting
the all-people advance for a fresh upsurge in socialist construction. Convinced
that this congress will constitute a turning point in bringing about innovation
and development in the union's work in response to the unanimous desire of the
working class and other trade union members to advance faster towards a great,
new victory of socialism and a new life, I, in the name of the Party Central
Committee, extend warm congratulations to the congress.
I
also extend militant greetings to the working class and other trade union
members who are performing feats of labour on all fronts of socialist
construction in hearty response to the fighting line and policies of the new
stage advanced by the Party.
There
are no trustworthy and proud working class elsewhere in the world other than
ours who loyally support the Party's cause by invariably carrying forward their
glorious fighting traditions and revolutionary spirit though the era has
changed and one generation is being replaced by another continuously with the
passage of time.
During
the arduous struggle over the last five years, all the working class and other
trade union members, cherishing in their hearts the trust of the Party Central
Committee that gave them the valuable title of the heroic working class of Kim
Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, rendered an outstanding contribution to opening up the
our-state-first era by displaying their unexcelled patriotic devotion.
Even
in the face of the worst-ever difficulties in recent years, the country's
national strength and prestige have been enhanced rapidly and our internal
force for the development and a leap forward of our revolution has been
strengthened remarkably.
This
is ascribable to the ennobling loyalty and heroic struggle of the workers and
all other working people across the country, which have absolutely supported
the Party's ideas, lines, plans and determinations and implemented them death-defying.
Gaining
strength and courage from the image of the working class who have steadfastly
and firmly trusted our Party only always with one mind and followed it
faithfully, it could decide without hesitation on the major matters of
self-respect in national defence and unfold in a big way the projects it had
aspired to do for national prosperity and people's happiness.
Our
working class and other trade union members, cherishing the faith that the
Party's lines and policies are a truth and science and lead to victory, have
set up proud creations and achieved successes by making painstaking efforts on
the arduous road of pushing forward the two fronts simultaneously, at the sites
of ushering in a golden age of construction and at the outposts of making our
economy self-supporting and Juche-oriented.
These
are invaluable assets which enable us today to advance towards higher goals and
ideals. After reviewing and analyzing the situation of the economic work over
the last five years in a comprehensive way, the Eighth Congress of the WPK set
the goals of a new stage aimed at putting the country's economy on a track of
normal development by readjusting and reinforcing it.
We
must not only create solid foundations for reactivating the overall national
economy and improving the people's standard of living during this five-year
plan period but make a great leap forward every five years.
In
this way, in the near future we can definitely guarantee the self-respect and
prosperity of our state and build a powerful socialist country, in which our
people enjoy a cultured and rich life to their heart's content. This means that
our socialist construction has developed from the stage of defending and
preserving itself to a new phase of innovation and transformation, a new era
that requires an extraordinary speed of growth.
The
era of a great turn, the era of a fresh great upsurge, demands that the working
class and other trade union members, the masters of creation and construction,
mindful of the important mission and duties they have assumed before the times
and revolution, rise up and demonstrate their fighting efficiency to the maximum.
All
the working class and other trade union members, as their predecessors did in
the postwar reconstruction period and the Chollima days, must make intensive
and devoted efforts at the sites of production and construction and at the
posts of scientific research and civilization creation, racing against time.
Only then can we bring about great innovations in socialist construction and
turn our people's ideals and dreams into reality by the time set by the Party
and on the stage desired by it.
Our
working class should carry forward in today's revolutionary advance the spirit
and mettle of their predecessors in the postwar reconstruction period and the
Chollima days who, filled with extraordinary revolutionary enthusiasm to
advance faster towards socialism and communism true to the call of the Party
and the leader, rejected passivity and conservatism, and worked legendary
miracles in the history of our economic construction on the strength of mass
heroism.
The
central task facing the trade unions at the present stage is to train the
working class and other trade union members into the working people who have
undergone revolutionary and communist transformation and who, mindful of the
mission and duties they have assumed before the Party, revolution and times,
work with devotion in the struggle for achieving a fresh victory of socialism.
The
trade unions should orient all types of their work into training the working
class and other trade union members of our generation into vanguard fighters
possessed of loyalty to the Party, the spirit of boundless devotion to the
country and revolution, the spirit of organization, fighting efficiency and
united strength, and bring about a radical turn in their work.
In
this way, they can demonstrate their fighting efficiency in the revolutionary
advance of a new era. The first task facing the trade unions is to firmly
prepare the working class and all other trade union members as possessors of
the communist faith who fight with a conviction in the bright future of our style
of socialism.
Their
extraordinary passion and endeavour devoted to the revolution is an outcome of
the conviction in the justness and future of their cause. Only when their faith
in the victory of socialism and the future is unshakable can they set bold
far-reaching ambitions and ideals in any adversity and work full of confidence
and optimism. We are waging an arduous struggle now when everything is lacking,
but the rich and worthwhile socialist life which everyone will lead without
anything to envy is never something of the distant future.
It
is important to give the people a correct understanding of socialism we plan to
build. The powerful country, the socialist society, we are aspiring after is a
society in which all the people live a comfortable and harmonious life in good
health and without any worries about food, clothing and housing, a
people-oriented society in which the communist traits and virtues of all the
people sharing pleasure and sorrow while helping and leading one another
forward. All the activities of our Party are oriented and subordinated to
bringing this happy society into reality at an earlier date.
Trade
union organizations should explain to the working class and other trade union
members the sincere mind and will of our Party and the advantages of our style
of socialism in depth so that they can devote themselves to the accomplishment
of the socialist cause for the happiness of their own and of their posterity.
They
should accurately convey to all their members the Party's documents which
clarify the guidelines for the building of our style of socialism and the gist
of its ideas and policies presented at each period.
In
this way, they can ensure that they are well aware of what the Party intends to
do and what they are supposed to do.
In
educating their members about our Party's ideas and leadership for the
country's prosperity and people's happiness and the validity and vitality of
its policies, they should refer to the miraculous victories and sea changes
achieved in socialist construction so that the education can be persuasive.
By
doing so, they should encourage the working class and other trade union members
to make redoubled efforts with the conviction in the greatness of our Party and
the conviction that we can get stronger and wealthier when we follow its
instructions.
In
particular, they should inform them in detail of the renewed struggle
objectives for socialist construction advanced by the Party's Eighth Congress,
the scientific accuracy of their realization and the on-going gigantic
undertakings intended for the substantial wellbeing of the people, so as to
make all of them visualize the appearance of their country about to be changed
beyond recognition and turn out as one in the efforts for implementing the
decisions of the Party congress.
What
is important is to encourage our working class and other trade union members to
cherish the Party's trust in and expectations of them deeply in mind and
shoulder the heaviest burden in the vanguard of the struggle for a fresh victory
in the revolution.
It
is essential to ensure that they learn from the firm confidence in and optimism
about the victory of socialism, which their predecessors in the days of postwar
reconstruction and great Chollima upsurge cherished.
Unlike
their preceding generations, the working class and other trade union members of
these days have not experienced the fierce war or the arduous struggle of
building the country from scratch.
Our
working class of those days built a socialist industrial state from nothing
under difficult circumstances as they were convinced that they could surely
create a new life because they were led by Comrade Kim Il Sung and that victory
and happiness was in store for them when they follow only the road indicated by
him.
It
is important to clearly inform the working class and other trade union members
of the proud history of building our style of socialism which their forerunners
pioneered at the cost of their sweat and blood, and thus ensure that the
contemporary working class stoutly inherit the faith of the preceding
generations, prototypes of loyalty to the Party and the leader, as their
ideological lifeline, not as something they learn from textbooks.
It
is necessary to encourage them to give play to the communist traits and noble
virtues of unhesitatingly sacrificing themselves for the sake of society, the
collective and fellow people in today's advance, holding higher the slogan
"One for all, all for one!" which was held in the Chollima era, and
find the value and worth of genuine life in contributing to the country's
prosperity and people's happiness with their creative work.
The
second task facing the trade unions is to firmly prepare the working class and
other trade union members to be vanguard fighters of self-reliance and
standard-bearers of creation who creditably play their role as the country's
"eldest sons" and advance unit in implementing the five-year plan set
forth by the Party.
The
campaign for implementing the new five-year plan is a very crucial and responsible
struggle for providing a jumping board for a leap forward in the efforts for
the future development of our state and sustained improvement of the people's
living standards, and the era of great upsurge is created by the millions of
the working people who rise up with a firm confidence in their strength.
Trade
union organizations should bring home to the working class and other trade
union members the truth that the process of implementing the five-year plan is
a sweeping revolution in building up the self-sufficient socialist economy and
the future development of the Juche-based industry can be achieved only in our
own way and by our own strength.
They
should encourage them to resolutely reject proclivity to import and reliance on
others and firmly maintain the principle of producing everything needed for
economic construction and people's living with our own raw and other materials,
through our own efforts and by our own technology.
They
should ensure that the implementation of the five-year plan is reviewed with
the useful and valuable creations of self-reliance that can proudly be called
things of our own making.
Trade
union organizations on the economic front should see to it that the fighting
spirit in the periods of postwar reconstruction and great Chollima upsurge,
when the production of major industrial goods increased many times over in a
short span of time amid the shortage of everything and thereby skipping several
centuries which had taken others to do so, is highly displayed in the current general
onward march.
Mindful
of their heavy responsibility they have assumed for the coming 100 years for
the state, the working class and other trade union members in the sectors of
metallurgical and chemical industries, which are buttresses of our economy,
should make decisive breakthroughs in putting their industries on the Juche
basis just as their preceding generations were the first to hold the banner of
the Chollima movement.
It
is necessary to proactively inspire the working class and other trade union
members in the key industries including power generation, coal and ore mining,
machine building, and rail transport to carry out the Party's strategy of
readjustment and reinforcement exactly so as to hit the targets of the
five-year plan ahead of schedule while laying strong foundations for
regularized production.
Trade
union organizations in the construction sector should propel the working class
and other trade union members to build a larger number of people's ideal
streets and villages in which the Juche-oriented aesthetic idea is embodied,
based on our-style designs and our own materials.
And
those in the light-industry sector, one of the two major fronts of revolution,
should encourage the masses to regard tapping locally-available raw and other materials
resources and recycling as a crucial task and produce essential consumer goods
in such a way that they are favoured by the people.
The
working class and other trade union members in the munitions industry, by
exerting themselves again in the indomitable spirit which they displayed while
blazing the trail in developing our style of cutting-edge weapons, should make
a proactive contribution to raising our defence industry onto a new, higher
stage of development.
A
shortcut to the implementation of the new five-year plan should be opened on
the strength of science and technology. Trade union organizations in the sector
of science and technology should encourage scientists and technicians to
cherish their weighty mission and honour as guides of self-reliance and
pioneers in building a prosperous country, and exert themselves to the maximum
in the struggle to put the national economy on a Juche-oriented, modern and
scientific basis.
Innovation
in the economic sector, in the true sense of the word, is possible only when
the producer masses become the masters of Science and technology. Trade union
organizations should ensure that all their members take part in the efforts for
presenting inventions, technical innovations and new creative ideas, and are respected
as worker inventors and treasures of their factories, which make valuable
contributions to modernizing production lines and increasing labour
effectiveness.
Trade
union organizations should thoroughly implement the Party's policy of making
all the people well-versed in science and technology and establish a climate of
studying to prepare the working class and other trade union members to be
intelligent workers armed with modern science and technology.
They
should see to it that all their members study hard regarding the SciTech
dissemination area as a college campus in their working places, so as to raise
their level of technological knowledge and become well-informed of the world
trend of development.
In
heightening the enthusiasm for patriotism and struggle of all the people
through the creation of civilization of our style, the trade union organizations
on the cultural front including education, public health and art and literature
have a very big role to play.
They
should encourage their members on this front to make active contributions to
raising the revolutionary enthusiasm and fighting spirit of our people with
their devoted efforts in the era of our-state-first principle. The trade union
members in the field of education and public health should devote their pure
conscience and tireless efforts to developing education and public health, the
images of our socialist system.
Those
in the field of art and literature should thoroughly implement the Party's idea
and policy of art and literature and create a large number of masterpieces that
suit the emotional and aesthetic feelings of our people to enrich the cultural
treasure house of the era of the Workers' Party.
Trade
union organizations should give full play to the might of mass heroism and collectivism
on all fronts of socialist construction by organizing and conducting mass
movements briskly.
The
trade unions should make the working sites seethe with creation of new
standards and records and continue to stoke the atmosphere of collective emulation
drive to learn from others and overtake them by effectively conducting mass
movements including the socialist emulation drive among fields, units,
workshops and workteams, the movement to create model lathes following the
example of Lathe No. 26 and the mass technical innovation drive.
They
should make the atmosphere, in which shifts, work teams and factories share
experiences and advance shoulder to shoulder while helping one another, become
commonplace and life itself in the process of the socialist emulation drive.
They should turn the entire process of mass movements into that of ideological
mobilization and motivation aimed at stimulating enthusiasm and a sense of
competition among the masses, by setting their proper goals and stages, fairly
and correctly grasping and reviewing their attainment and giving due appraisal.
They
should implant in the hearts of the working class and other trade union members
the feeling of attachment to labour and to their jobs and workplaces. Love of
labour is immediately loved of one's country and a conviction in the future.
Trade union organizations should educate the working class and other trade
union members to bear deep in mind that our dream of building a powerful
country can come true and they can carve out a brighter future only when they
devote their sincere sweats and efforts regarding labour as the most
honourable.
In
our society, where all the people are its masters, there cannot be any
discrimination among jobs, and each and every one of them is a revolutionary
and patriotic post which is indispensable and must be defended for the country
and for them.
Trade
union organizations, through steady education aimed at making the working class
and other trade union members feel attached to their factories and jobs, should
lead them to regard their factories and workplaces as an inseparable part of
their life and work hard to achieve happiness for themselves and their
offspring and contribute to the development of the country.
They
should give wide publicity to the technicians and skilled workers who have kept
working conscientiously at their jobs for several decades, commend them
appropriately, and make sure that the phenomena of discriminating jobs are not
revealed among their members.
The
third task facing the trade unions is to prepare the working class and other
trade union members as socialist civilization incarnate, who are possessed of
ennobling moral traits and high cultural attainment. Trade union organizations
should encourage the working class to become role models in society in terms of
the moral and cultural aspects as well as the revolutionary character and
militant temperament in conformity with the Party's intention to build a
communist society by dint of morality and culture of the working class.
They
should ensure that the working class and other trade union members embody the
communist view on morality and establish a sound, revolutionary moral climate
of the era of struggle, the era of continuous advance and leap forward.
They
should always show their concern on leading their members to observe the rules
of etiquette, public decency and social order voluntarily and demonstrate the
traits befitting the working class in their attire and other aspects of outward
appearances. They should also see to it that the working class and other trade
union members give full play to the communist traits of helping and leading one
another forward by devoting their all unsparingly for the sake of society, the
collective and comrades, thus promoting harmony of the collective and achieving
a genuine comradely unity.
In
particular, a great effort must be directed to encouraging them to emulate the
ennobling spiritual world of the people in the era of Chollima. Putting before
themselves the question, "The era of Chollima and me?" all of them
should be encouraged to live and work to feel no remorse, always thinking about
what they have done for the good of their comrades and collectives, whether
they have ever caused inconveniences to them for their own sake and what they
will do for their comrades and for the strengthening of the might of their
collectives.
Trade
union organizations should briskly organize education through artistic and
literary works and various political and cultural activities among their members,
so as to heighten their political and cultural standards and creative
enthusiasm.
They
should ensure that all their members not only do their work in an effective and
responsible way but also read many books, be prepared to make motivational
speeches full of vigour of the working class in front of others and take active
part in the artistic and sports activities.
Various
cultural and sports activities including mass cultural and artistic activities
and mass sports games should be organized on a regular basis, so that all the
theatres of great upsurge, which are seething with socialist construction,
overflow with optimism and emotion, militant spirit and delight of the working
class and the whole society is vibrant with a bright and cheerful atmosphere all
the time.
Trade
union organizations should ensure that the working class and other trade union
members efficiently conduct the work of establishing a cultured way of
production and life and taking loving care of their equipment. By doing so,
they can make it their habit to lay out the inside and outside of their
workplaces as they would do their own houses, keep them in a neat and cultured
way and maintain their machines as dearly as they would do their own skin.
They
should make sure that the working class and other trade union members intensify
the struggle against anti-socialist and non-socialist practices which threaten
our ideology, system, morality and culture. It is only when the working class,
who have a strong sense of principle and hate injustice more than anybody else,
stand in the vanguard of the struggle against all kinds of negative practices
that the original features of our style of socialism can be consolidated and
the work of transforming the whole society on revolutionary and communist lines
further accelerated.
They
should bring home to them the truth that the struggle against the
anti-socialist and non-socialist practices is a do-or-die battle to defend the
working-class purity and lifeline of our style of socialism. This is in order
to rouse all of them to the intensive clean-up operation against such
practices.
It
is important to well inform them of the forms of expression, danger and harmful
effects of these practices and incessantly awaken them to leave no room in
their minds for even a smallest non-working class element to infiltrate, and
lead them not to ignore such practices which are manifested in their
surroundings but wage an uncompromising struggle against them and resolutely
smash them. Trade union organizations should constantly pay close attention to
the work and life of their members and take strict measures for their education
in advance to prevent the slightest alien tendency.
They
should not regard the practices of gnawing away at the interests of their units
and collectives on the plea of the difficult living conditions as something
tolerable, but strongly combat such practices to overcome them.
The
trade union organizations in units of exceptional character in their work
should further intensify education and control of their members so that they
can observe the socialist principles more willingly. In this way they can never
allow the unsound practices to sprout even in the slightest degree among their
members.
The
working class and other trade union members should perform with credit the
vanguard role in the new grand revolutionary march by heightening their
revolutionary spirit, sense of organization, might of unity and fighting
efficiency.
To
this end, a radical turn is needed in the work of the trade unions. The trade
unions have failed so far to display their original features as mass political
organizations of the working class and merely maintained the status quo without
vigour. It is because they have failed to properly conduct the work of
strengthening themselves.
They
should carry out in a responsible manner their tasks as organizations in charge
of ideological education as required by the times and the developing reality so
as to fully discharge their duties in the struggle for ushering in a new era of
fresh upsurge in socialist construction.
They
should launch a vigorous ideological campaign, regarding it as their priority
task to imbue themselves with the Party's revolutionary ideology. Trade union
organizations should regularly and effectively operate the system of education,
including study sessions and public lectures, and step up the five-point
education in an offensive way in various forms and by various methods with the
main emphasis put on education in the revolutionary traditions and loyalty.
They
should apply various methods and means of education including meetings with
labour innovators of the preceding generations, lectures by the itinerary trade
union lecturers, trade union publications, radio programmes and multimedia
presentations, and continue to uncover and actively employ other highly
effective forms and methods of education.
They
should spruce up the rooms of culture and information as befits bases of
ideological education, furnish them with necessary educational aids and run
them in a well-planned way. There are neither designated areas nor hard and
fast rules or stereotypes for ideological education.
It
should be done on the way to and back from work, before getting to work and
during the break and in such a diverse and effective way that it can touch the
heartstrings of the masses. Then, the whole course of labour and life will
become a process of bringing the Party's policies home to them.
They
should correct such deviations as resting content with conveying the
educational materials from the higher organizations to lower ones or filling up
numbers in ideological education work, and direct their efforts to informing
their members of what they want to know by associating it with the present
reality, thus turning the whole process of education into genuine political
work that moves their feelings and hearts.
They
should make exacting demands on their members to value their organizations and
strictly observe the organizational discipline. By imbuing their members with a
correct viewpoint on the organization, they should ensure that all of them
respect the dignity of their organizations and regard it as not only an
obligation but also a matter of conscience and pride to work and live by
relying on them.
They
should discover, develop and give prominence to the buds of positive examples
noticeable among their members, and should guide and care for them lest they
take a wrong step in their life. Then, they will be very grateful to their
organizations and keenly impressed by their value. It is important to
regularize and standardize the organizational life.
Trade
union organizations should regard it as an iron rule to conduct the
organizational life review sessions, regular general membership meetings,
giving assignments and reviewing their implementation on the set dates without
fail. They should ensure that the political and ideological level of the
organizational life review sessions is improved, criticism and self-criticism
are intensified and the course of fulfilling their assignments contributes to
elevating the members' political consciousness and carrying out their
revolutionary tasks.
Mindful
of the fact that even a step of concession or compromise in arranging and
guiding the organizational life of their members can be the starting point of
their politico-ideological degeneration, trade union organizations should
steadily raise the level of their revolutionary training through the
organizational life.
In
particular, they should intensify organizational control over the members who
live or work separated from their organizations, including those who have been
seconded to construction, those who work away from their units and those whose
work involves many trips, so that they are not left outside the organizational
life.
They
should solve without delay the problem of those who are divorced from them or have
not registered with them, and make sure that not a single member lives at their
will outside the system of the organizational life.
The
main link in the whole chain of efforts for improving and strengthening trade
union work is to enhance the role of its primary organizations. As a
firm-rooted tree can stand unperturbed in the face of any storm, so trade union
work can become effective only when its primary organizations, which can be
likened to the roots of the trade unions, play their role properly.
For
the primary organizations and the trade unions as a whole to be strengthened,
all the primary officials should be prepared as versatile persons possessed of
practical abilities, and the hard core of the unions.
The
primary officials of the trade unions should be well-qualified so that they can
explain to their members the essence of the Party's ideas, lines and policies
efficiently, be well-versed in their jobs and well-acquainted with the
practical work of their organizations. By learning from the Party's method of
working among the masses and approaching their members with sincerity, they
should become political workers whom they follow and respect from the bottom of
their hearts.
It
is necessary to arrange in a planned way and execute in an effective way
various types of work including a workshop and presentation of experiences
aimed at improving their qualifications. Officials in higher echelons should go
down among the primary organizations regularly, guiding meetings, personally
executing the operation of study rooms for chairpersons of primary units, and
teaching them the methods of preparing reports to meeting and action plans. By
doing so, they can improve their qualifications.
The
trade unions should effectively organize and wage a campaign for winning the
title of Model Organization of Loyalty, so as to steadily increase the ranks of
Model Primary Trade Union Committees of Loyalty and Model Primary Trade Union
Units of Loyalty. It should regard it as an important task to put forward the
units which are associated with the leadership achievements of the Party as
models in the work of winning the title of the Model Organization of Loyalty
and to generalize their experiences, and conduct this work in the direction of
fanning the enthusiasm for winning the title.
It
should form its primary organizations on a rational basis, and take measures
for establishing a well-knit system of controlling and guiding these
organizations. It should examine the organizational structures of its primary
organizations in an overall way and correct mistakes in time so that the
members do not feel difficulties in their organizational life and production
activities. It should also put its efforts to establishing a double
organizational life guidance system so as to ensure that the work of conveying
the Party's policies is not delayed and the directives and assignments of its
higher organizations reach their subordinate organizations in time.
It
should establish throughout itself a revolutionary style of work that brims
over with the mettle of the working class. All its officials should always
engage in their work actively with the working-class courage, fortitude,
determination and fighting spirit, get rid of defeatism and self-preservation,
and push ahead with their work in a creative and enterprising manner.
They
should apply in their work the sincere style of work of always studying how to
innovate the organization's work in keeping with the requirements of the
reality that demands development and innovation and the working-class
temperament and mettle of carrying any undertaking through to completion once
they are determined to do it, so that the whole union seethes with the work of
carrying out the ideas and lines of the Party and pulsate with the spirit of
innovation and advance.
With
fervent comradeship and human feeling, they should take care of the trade union
members in their work and life as their own elder brothers or sisters would do.
They should be efficient in the work of sincerely taking care of and helping
those who work with devotion for the sake of the country and fellow people,
including those who always work hard at production sites keeping back the
difficulties in their life and mental agony and without caring for their own
household affairs and those who have been seconded to the major construction
sites for a long time.
They
should ensure that the working class and other trade union members achieve
unity in thinking and behaviour for their collectives and comrades and are
close-knit by bonds of human feeling so that they can create miraculous feats
through a collective strength in implementing the Party's policies.
Party
organizations at all levels should give importance to and actively support the
trade union work. Only when they give Party-oriented assistance to the trade
union work and lead it properly, can trade union organizations play their roles
to the full and advance in a vigorous manner.
Mindful
of the fact that their indifference to the trade union work will result in
weakening the organizing abilities and fighting efficiency of trade union
organizations, they should give a correct policy-oriented guidance to the work.
It is important for them to build up the ranks of trade union officials.
They
should build up the ranks with people who are loyal to the Party and staunch in
their revolutionary faith, enterprising people who have been trained in field
labour, and people who are prepared politically and practically and are popular
among the masses.
They
should provide trade union officials with proper conditions so that they can
work according to their terms of reference, and put them forward and throw
their weight behind them so that they can do their work with a sense of honour.
They should ensure that such deviations as seconding trade union officials to
other work or assigning public work to trade union organizations and thus
hampering trade union work are eliminated.
They
should do away with the tendency of ignoring trade union organizations and
shouldering their work over themselves, place trust in the organizations and
members, and give important tasks and wide publicity to them, so as to enhance
their sense of independence and creativity.
In
today's advance for opening up an era of fresh upsurge in socialist
construction, our Party places great trust in the revolutionary character and
combat efficiency of the working class and other trade union members who are
loyal to the Party's leadership and have inherited the traditions of heroic
struggle.
I
am convinced that the whole working class and all other trade union members
will advance more courageously, bringing about great transformations on all
fronts of socialist construction through a vigorous struggle for creation and
construction.
