Looking round a raw materials yard for minutes, she told officials that the Japanese imperialists had driven Korean workers hard like a beast of burden, providing no protection arrangement, with many of them losing their lives or getting crippled in accidents and suffering from occupational diseases.

She, quoting President Kim Il Sung as saying no matter how the production might be important, it could never be compared with the health of the workers, noted that the officials should make every effort to improve the working conditions, always keeping his remark in memory.

She also said the workers had become masters of the factory and the country in liberated Korea and national economic plans and their implementations were all necessary for the building of a prosperous, independent and sovereign state in which the people including the workers and peasants would be well off.

The officials were deeply touched by her view of putting the working conditions and health of the workers above production.