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May 1, 1886, American workmen, centered in Chicago, carried out a great-scaled demonstration. Despite this event caused a tragedy in the hey market in Chicago, it serves also as a turning point for the world to seriously consider the labor issue, and also serves as the origin of the international labor day. In the nineteenth & twentieth century China, mainly an agricultural society though, was involved in this global trend without exception. KMT, at that time limited within the area of Canon, rightly seized this trend and found a new route to connect to labors to launch a new era for itself. For details you may refer to our research finding: Lu Fang-shang, "In Search of a Revolutionary Strategy: Pluralism and Diversity the Guomingdang, 1917-1926".
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