Paying Close Attention to Cultural and Emotional Life of Working Class

Chairman Kim Jong Il's revolutionary leadership associated with his love and devotion for the people produced a story about how he was concerned to provide the Korean working class with good cultural living conditions.

Chairman Kim Jong Il said:

"Factories and enterprises should pay close attention also to establishing a cultured way of work and life."

During his revolutionary activities at Kim Il Sung University, he did production practice at the tool workshop of the Pyongyang Textile Machine Factory for about 20 days from mid-April to early May 1961.

At that time the factory was striving to carry out President Kim Il Sung's instructions on producing Chollima loom and equipment for a chemical fibre mill.

But the cultural and emotional life of the workers failed to conform with the revolutionary enthusiasm of its workers who turned out in the struggle to implement the instructions of the President.

During his production practice, the Chairman paid close attention to improving the conditions for the cultural and emotional life of the workers so that they could enjoy the noblest and richest cultural and emotional life as befitting the working class, the personifiers of the most advanced and revolutionary culture in our society.

While doing production practice, he saw to it that the rooms of the dormitory were tided, a flower bed where various flowers could bloom was created around it, and a volleyball court was laid out in an open space near the tool workshop and often acted as volleyball umpire to encourage the workers to live in a cultured and hygienic and optimistic way.

Besides, he explained the Party's policies to the workers, wrote and put up notices on the noticeboards, and arranged for songs and art performances to be disseminated and given every evening.

On May Day he organized picnics of students and workers on Yanggak Islet so as to encourage workers to bring about innovations in production with great zeal for work.

Indeed, the Chairman's production practice was not merely a process of learning to operate a lathe but a worthwhile period when he learned the aspirations and demands of the workers in production sites and led them along the path of creation and innovation, progress and leap forward, and served as a historic occasion for bringing about a revolutionary turn in making the workers establish cultured practices in production and life.