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| Great Strike of February 7th Peking-Hankow Railway Workers Great Strike | |||
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| Part of the first labor movement upsurge in China | |||
 After the founding ofNew China, in July 1951, a public trial sentenced Zhao Jixian to death, who was considered a culprit behind the deaths of the workers. On the walls in the photo, portrayed are Ge Shugui, Wu Zhen, unknown, Shi Yang and Li Xiangqian, who died in the strike. | |||
| Date | 4–7 February 1923 | ||
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| Caused by | At the beginning of the 20th century, Chinese workers were treated poorly and were deeply exploited; The establishment of trade unions was blocked. | ||
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| Methods | Strikes, processions, collective agreements, solidarity actions and picketings | ||
| Resulted in | Failed. Wuhan, Changxindian, and Zhengzhou were under martial law. TheBeiyang Army and police entered Jiang'an and Changxindian to intervene and disperse the striking workers. Before theNational Revolutionary Army'sNorthern Expedition to liberate Wuhan, the trade unions went underground. | ||
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Zhang Guotao | |||
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TheGreat Strike of February 7th[a] orPeking-Hankow Railway Workers' Great Strike[b] was ageneral strike which took place in February 1923.[1]
At the beginning it was only an internalrally, but under the intervention ofBeiyang cliques it eventually developed into a general strike. The situation uncontrollably escalated into bloody clashes in which soldiers and police shot workers, 52 of whom were killed. In the strike also about hundred people injured and thousands of workers were expelled.
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