Re: Irish Workers on the Transcontinental Railroad

[KoOks of San Francisco]

In article <t1olj8$362pt$1...@news.freedyn.de>
<governo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Modern day lazy unaffected niggers do not deserve any fucking reparations.
> They didn't give one flying fuck about any possible slave shit until money was waved.
>

The Builders of the Transcontinental Railroad
President Abraham Lincoln signed the Pacific Railroad Act into
law on July 1, 1862. The act gave two companies, the Union
Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad,
responsibility for completing the transcontinental railroad and
authorized
extensive land grants and the issuance of 30-year government
bonds to finance the undertaking. The Union Pacific was to lay
track westward from a point near Omaha, Nebraska; the Central
Pacific was to build eastward from Sacramento, California.
The labor required to build the first transcontinental railroad
was extensive. The main laborers, the ones who laid the track,
did
back-straining work for days on end, for not necessarily high
wages, in sometimes brutal conditions. This massive
transportation
construction project also required an entire network of support,
including medical staff, cooks, and proprietors of provisions,
stores and living areas.
Irish immigrants were the primary early builders of the Central
Pacific Railroad. Management of the initial railroad work was not
very inspirational, and pay was not exactly high; as a result,
many Irish workers walked off the job. To fill the gap, Central
Pacific
turned to Chinese immigrants, who were travelling across the
Pacific Ocean in increasing numbers, 40,000 in the 1850s alone.
Many of these Chinese immigrants had come to California for the
Gold Rush and had stayed.

<https://www.uen.org/transcontinentalrailroad/downloads/G7IrishW
orkersTranscontinentalRailroad.pdf>