Subsequently, 1886, 1 In May, the United States held a large-scale strike demonstration with about 350,000 people as the center. The demonstrators demanded improved working conditions and an eight-hour working day.
On May 3rd, the Chicago authorities violently suppressed the workers. This atrocity aroused great indignation among the workers in this city.
In order to commemorate this great workers' movement, 1889, in July, at the Second International Founding Congress organized by Engels, it was announced that May 1 day every year would be designated as International Labor Day, referred to as "May Day" for short.
On May 1 day, workers from industrial cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Jiujiang and Tangshan marched to the market and held large-scale demonstrations and gatherings. Li Dazhao published the History of the May Day Movement in New Youth, introduced the origin of May Day and the activities of workers in the United States, France and other countries to commemorate May Day, and called on workers in China to take May Day as the day of awakening this year.
To celebrate this festival, Chen Duxiu also published the article "The Problem of Hunan Women Workers in Shanghai Housheng Cotton Mill", which exposed the truth that capitalists exploited workers' surplus value.
This is the first time that China commemorates May 1 International Labor Day, and it is also the first May 1 Labor Day in the history of China.