Chairman
"The great leader Comrade
The revolutionary leadership of the President
On August 24, 1969, he visited the Suphung Branch Factory of the Kusong Textile Mill, looked round various places of the mill and met some women weavers.
Looking at the excited weavers tenderly, he asked them carefully when they started working at the factory, how much they were paid in a month, what their husbands did, how many people there were in the family, and where they lived. Then he asked one weaver what side dishes she ate at home.
When he was told that she cooked various dishes and soup from vegetables, he asked if she ate eggs.
For a moment, not only she but also other weavers couldn't answer the question of the President.
Most families were not yet well-off enough to buy eggs and meat frequently, and, moreover, they were too busy doing their work to grow vegetables or raise domestic animals.
Having noticed about this, he said that eggs and meat hadn't yet been being produced enough and asked a county official about the construction of the chicken plant in Sakju County in detail.
He continued that it is important to produce enough eggs for workers and it is necessary to build the chicken plant as soon as possible.
Before the President left the factory that day, he told officials to ensure that the factory should install the dust-cleaning device as soon as possible so as not to cause any harm to the health of the female workers. And he kindly shook hands with the weavers and earnestly hoped that all of them would boost production on a higher level.
That day, after he visited the factory, he convened a consultative meeting of the executive committee members of the North Phyongan Provincial Party Committee and chief secretaries of city and county Party committees. In the meeting, he said although many factories had been built in Sakju and other areas in North Phyongan Province, the supply of meat and eggs is not good enough for the workers. He continued that since Sakju county had a great amount of timber resources, we should make good use of wood to build chicken plants as soon as possible and supply enough eggs to the workers.
Indeed, the love and care of the President for the ordinary women weavers of the factory on an ordinary day were the fatherly love that even their own parents who had brought up them could not give.
