Columns of Workers and Peasants 

  This happened several days before May Day in 1946, the year after liberation.
During his on-site guidance in North Hamgyong Province, Comrade Kim Il Sung went over the plan for the celebration of May Day in the province.
The plan was about a parade on May Day, and officials of the province and the city of Chongjin, the provincial seat, were supposed to ride horses, leading the parading columns.
That evening he said to an official: Today in our liberated country the workers and peasants are the most valuable persons and its pillars. Therefore, their columns should lead the May Day parade. This is the firm position and view of our Party on the masses of the people.
As he regarded the working masses as masters of the country, the workers and peasants of the country greeted the first May Day after liberation in happiness and delight.