Great Strike of February 7

The Great Strike of February 7th or Peking-Hankow Railway Workers' Great Strike was a general strike which took place in February 1923.



At the beginning it was only an internal rally, but under the intervention of Beiyang 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.