Pyongyang, July 12 (KCNA) -- Mass movements, waged by our people under the guidance of President Kim Il Sung during the Fatherland Liberation War, contributed to hastening the victory in the war.

The whole country seethed with a movement of volunteering for military service on the war front since the beginning of the war.

People from all walks of life, youth and students held meetings at industrial establishments, rural areas, fishing villages, schools, hospitals and streets across the country to vow to go to the front.

Amid the movement, many people volunteered to fight on the war front and the number of volunteers increased with each passing day.

A movement for donating funds for weaponry, too, was expanded into an all-people patriotic movement.

Thanks to the enthusiasm of people in the rear to assist the front, planes, tanks and warships named after "Rodongja" (worker), "Minchong" (democratic youth), "Taehaksaeng" (university student), "Sonyon" (child) and others were sent to the front. More than 400 million won were provided as funds for weaponry in a little more than two months after the outbreak of the war.

In various sectors of the national economy, different types of mass movements were conducted. They included the frontline shock brigade movement, the front work-team movement, the increased production movement for two or three workers, the plow-woman movement and the campaign for donating relief grains to the front.

As the enthusiasm of the mass movement mounted day by day, the total industrial output plan in 1951 was fulfilled at 109.6 percent and the total industrial output value in 1952 increased by 19 percent comparing to that of the previous year. The actual production of munitions industrial enterprises increased more than five or six times as compared to the period of peaceful construction.

The number of straw bags of relief grains donated to the war front reached over 220 000 on April 30, 1953.

The all-people patriotic movements, which were briskly launched in the rear throughout the war, served as bullets and shells of dealing a deadly blow of revenge to the aggressors and as a powerful driving force of bolstering up the combat capability of the People's Army and hastening the day of victory in the war. -0-