Pyongyang, October 10 (KCNA) -- The Confederation of Trade Unions of south Korea held a rally in Seoul on Friday in denunciation of the puppet authorities' crackdown on trade unions.

Speakers condemned the authorities for indiscriminate lay-off and suppression of trade unions.

All the people, pushed to the brink of a cliff in life, are carrying on the struggle against the "government" and capital, they said.

Only solidarity is a way out, they said, declaring that the workers would pool their efforts to continue the struggle to the last without yielding to the repression.

They called for frustrating the present regime's suppression and defending the trade unions.