106 years ago today, on November 1, 1919 (September 9, 1919), the first upsurge of the labor movement in the history of the United States. On November 1, 1919, the 500,000 miners' strike in the United States was the first upsurge in the history of the labor movement in the United States. During World War I, American capitalists took advantage of the opportunity to make a windfall. The policy of "regulating economic life" pursued by the United States during the war ensured that the capitalists obtained more profits than before the war, but created "military hard labor camps for the workers (and a part of the peasants) ", which further deteriorated the situation of the working class. The victory of the October Socialist Revolution promoted the development of the American labor movement. The first was the strike of New York dockworkers in January 1919, which opened the prelude to the early postwar American workers' movement; a general strike in Seattle in February; and strikes by railroad workers in Chicago, Boston, and Philadelphia in July and August. During the strike, the American proletariat put forward the slogan "No interference in Soviet Russia" and formed the "League of Friends of Soviet Russia"; at the end of August, the Communist Workers' Party of America was established under the leadership of John Reed. On September 1, the Communist Party of the United States led by Rudenberg was established; in September, under the leadership of the Communist Foster, the American steelworkers went on strike, and the strike struggle of the 365,000 steelworkers swept through 50 cities in 10 states including Pennsylvania and Indiana; by November, the miners went on strike again, which caused a magnificent strike struggle in various walks of life across the United States. At that time, more than 4 million workers participated in this strike, and there was an unprecedented upsurge in strikes in the history of the American labor movement. Faced with such a situation, the American bourgeoisie and its government took the following countermeasures: first destroy the miners' strike, and then suppress the steelworkers with all their strength. They threatened the striking miners and used the right-wing union leaders to sabotage them from within, finally breaking up the miners' strike. As soon as the miners' struggle subsided, they immediately dispatched a large number of military and police to deal with the steelworkers with bloody suppression. Large numbers of workers were killed and thousands were arrested. The first upsurge of the labor movement in the United States after the war was bloodily suppressed.