At the rally speakers said the Railway Company is resorting to such suppression as massive disciplinary measures and reparation for damage as they staged a strike in protest against privatization of railway service. This is entirely a retaliatory suppression, they noted.

They declared they would no longer connive at the act of the company engrossed in suppression only after turning down the demand of the trade union.

Then, Chairman Kim Myong Hwan and more than 100 trade unionists held a ceremony for having their hair cut and strongly protested against the company's suppression.

They decided to have their hair cut in order to oppose the privatization of railway service and realize the demand of the trade union, they said, stressing that they would continue the general strike in the future, too.