Speakers at the press conference charged that the moves of the authorities to stamp out the labor movement have reached an extreme phase as evidenced by the disciplinary actions taken by them against members of trade unions including the Government Employees' Union and the Teachers Union, their measures to force them to close their offices and cancellation of collective contracts.

Declaring that all the unions under the Confederation of Trade Unions were ready to call a general strike any time, they warned that people from all walks of life in south Korea would launch a powerful struggle in protest against the authorities' attempt to railroad "bills" against the labor movement, people's living and peace through the "National Assembly".

Then, they demanded the authorities meet 10-point demands such as a halt to the crackdown upon the trade unions, the repeal of the evil law on media, the settlement of the tragedy in Ryongsan.

At the end of the press conference members of the said headquarters entered into a sit-in strike in tents in Youido Park, Seoul.

On the same day the chairpersons of the above-mentioned teachers' union and government employees' union held a press conference in Seoul to protest against the authorities' suppression of the labor movement.

They declared that they would inform the world of the unreasonable labor policy pursued by the present authorities through solidarity with the international body and wage a struggle to get various kinds of regulations suppressing the labor movement repealed.