the fifth newsletter about the situation of Daewoo Struggle from the Daewoo Joint Struggle Headquarters

A. [March 15th] CULTURAL FESTIVAL WITH FAMILY FOR SUPPORTING STRUGGLE ONWARD

In front of Daewoo Motor's rental apartments in Kajeong-dong, at 7 in the evening, March 15, cultural festival "WE WANT TO COME BACK TO WORK" was held by Family Counterplan Committee to stop mass layoffs and keep their right to live. This festival was intended to show ongoing struggle (by Family Counterplan Committee) to the other families in the apartments, and to encourage them to join the struggle and to cheer them up. Through the festival, the Committee members could feel they strongly united and they strengthened their resolve for struggle onward.

A large placard hanging on the wall of the apartment saying, "WE WANT TO COME BACK TO WORK." And there were also a lot of placard on the apartmnet balconies, saying "We oppose layoffs. No layoffs."

During the festival, which began with Kilnori(a parade) by Pungmulpae(Korean traditional percussion instrument music band), participants felt more connected to each other with singing and dancing together and the festival got more exciting with the shows by Daewoo Motor's singing group and comrade Park Jun. The festival became more meaningful by a story of a wife whose husband, as a member of Daewoo Motor's Trade Union, survived the layoff. She said, now her husband is working under surveillance by the management and the riot police. She also said, "although they can not see much of each other and there is some gap between those who got laid off and not. They are all one and should stick together and go on struggle to solve this urgent situation.

The festival continued with film-running about the struggles by workers and families against Daewoo Motor. It made the participants solemn and tearful. In the scene where riot police appeared, one little kid shouted out "ad men!"and in the scene where the riot police were violently taking demonstrators, people got infuriated.

They then shouted "WAY WITH YOU"to policemen in civilian clothes hanging around the festival site and the scared policemen went away. Looking at the scene in which police were taking workers, one kid asked his father, "ad, haven't you been taken by the police to the police station?" His father answered, "Why not? Already two times!". Everyone was in tears at the scenes in which a gray-haired old mother, grabbing the minister of Labor, exclaimed "NO LAYOFF", and one father, being caught by the riot police, cried out when he got separated from his son by the police. At the scene that the police violently hit a woman with a baby on her back, the viewers were incensed and shouted, "YOU (the police) SON OF BITCH!", "YOU Sucker!"

The festival closed with everybody singing "Like a rock", "Strike song" with candles in their hands in exploding fireworks. When the people were marching in a circle with the candles in their hands, families's tearful voices in their letters for solidarity became spread to the sky of Kajeong-dong. The letters were about desperate and sad reality of the families but the participants didn't remain just sad. They cheered up each other and strengthened their resolve for struggle onward...

B. Statement

We are warned against the establishing the new unit in charge of fending off gasoline bombs by the Kim Daejung Government

First, the Kim Dae-jung government should remorse by looking at the people's requests which is the rights to live

1. The government policy, raising the compensation 10times more which would be given by reporting the fire-bottle to the police, and saying that they would put the demonstrator with fire-bottle in the 1st place in the court, is very careless according to the declaration of war that they would suppress the laborers by the specially trained army.

2. To say it easily, the way of suppressing that their plans from the security police conference was the lowest level of all. It is such a dangerous attitude that they were trying to oppose the people's resistance by cruel force. We also want the demonstration with fire-bottles disappear, but would it be possible to disappear if the government raise the compensation 10 times and make the new unit? Then, why has the fire-bottle demonstration continued during the period of military regime? It is such a disappointing attitude that the government is using the theory of public peace and safety to oppose the labors and people's resistance.

3. The recent fire-bottle demonstration was wanted by the government itself. Kim,woo-Joong had fired so many workers (1750 layoffs) while he was having such a luxurious life in foreign country. He oppressed the workers in Daewoo Bu-Pyoung factory by using cruel violence. The police had beaten up a father and a son, brothers, a man with handicap and those people who had lost their place to live from Daewoo. They even came into the Sangok cathedral where the fired families from Daewoo temporarily had lived and arrested all people in there without any reason. The government had been beating innocent people The police had abused the law They have been showing that the justice has been lost. If the political power loses its consciousness, an unexpected resistance will come out. The fire-bottle demonstration, started in Bu-Pyoung, was wanted by the government that has been pushing the cruel policy with force.

4. Suppressing the fire-bottle demonstration with very cruel way should get worse. Korea people are turning their back on the government. Finally they are shouting "The Government Resign". Fire-bottle demonstration, appeared in years, are showing how serious the people's anger is. A lot of Korean people are changing the channel when the president appears on TV. Why is that so? Pres. Kim Dae-Joong has left the worst situation. The government policy of revolution has failed completely. The government has fired the innocent people and workers, and made them hunger by abusing the name of layoff.

However, the government has been giving the funds to the foreign countries. The revolution has been lost, but the silence remains. People have been saying that Kim, Young-Sam policy has ruined our country, but the truth is that the recent political policy is not acceptable.

The people do not have any hope on the Kim, Dae-Joong's government. The denial of fire-bottle is not being talked about anymore. The government should understand what it means.

5. We believe that the government has lost its consciousness. The arrogant attitude of the government shows the last of itself. We have been learning that the mean power has always been judged. Ex president Jung-hee Park, Do-whan Jun, Tae-woo No Young-sam Kim's political policies had been judged by the people. We do not want the president Kim Dae-jungDae-Joong doing the same thing, but if he continues to have this arrogant attitude, there's no other way. We are willing to fight against the government if they do not make the right revolution. We do not want any trouble, but we do not want to avoid either.

Kim, Dae-Joong's policy should stop making the new units !!!!!!!
Kim, Dae-Joong's policy should resign!!!!!!!

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