May Day International Labor Day

May Day International Labor Day

May Day International Labor Day from the Chicago City workers strike. On May 1, 1886, 216816 workers in Chicago held a general strike for an eight-hour working system, and after a tough bloody struggle, they finally won. To commemorate the great workers' movement, in July 1889, at the Second International Conference held at Engels, it was announced that it would be the International Labor Day on May 1 each year. This decision immediately received a positive response from the workers all over the world. May 1, 1890, the working class in Europe and the United States took the lead in the streets, held a grand demonstrations and rallies, for legitimate rights and interests. Since then, every day the working people of all countries in the world have to meet, march, celebrate and public leave.

The celebration of the Labor Day by the Chinese people dates back to 1918. This year, some revolutionary intellectuals in Shanghai, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Hankou and other places to the masses to introduce the "51" leaflets.

May 1, 1920 Conference Li Dazhao speech, May 1, 1920, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Jiujiang, Tangshan and other industrial cities of the masses of workers to the mighty market, held a massive parade, rally. Li Dazhao published in the "new youth" published " " 51 "movement history", introduced the "May Day" festival and the United States and France and other countries to commemorate the "51" activities, called on Chinese workers to this year's "May 1 "As the date of awakening. Chen Duxiu also to celebrate the holiday published a "Shanghai thick sizing mill Hunan women workers" article, exposing the capitalist exploitation of the residual value of the truth of the workers. Chen Duxiu in Shanghai Shipping Stack Chamber of Commerce and Industry Federation made a "hard labor" of the speech, clarified the "labor to create the world." "The most useful and most valuable" point of view. In Beijing, some young people went out and propagated and distributed the May 1 Labor Declaration, which awakened workers to fight against exploitation and struggle for their own rights. This is the first time in China to commemorate the "May Day" International Labor Day activities, but also the history of China's first "May Day" Labor Day.