In September 1947, President Kim Il Sung inspected the ball iron workshop of a steel mill.
This workshop the Japanese aggressors created aboriginally to make least expensive and plunder more steels after they had occupied Korea brought occasional deaths because of electric shock and suffocation. After liberation, some of dangerous facilities were dismantled and working conditions bettered to produce steels for building of a new country.
When he entered the workshop choked with gases, dusts, hot-air and noises the President said that our workers could not help working at the dangerous electric arc furnace losing their lives before liberation as they were deprived of their country, but why we should keep them working at this dangerous workshop as they were already the masters of the country and we should never exchange their lives for steel no matter how precious the steel might be. And then, he instructed officials repeatedly to take away ball iron workshop.
Since then, the President came to see the ball iron workshop again and made a decisive step, saying to the officials who were delaying to take away the workshop while waiting for a new steelmaking process to be completed that those who do not value the lives of workers are not the true officials loyal to the workers. The ball iron workshop disappeared without any vestige!
This was a historic event of telling what a true world of the working class is like.
