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William Chew
Historian, Writer
After a distinguished career in aerospace (his many projects include components the Mars Viking lander and experiemnts flown on the Space Shuttle) Mr. Chew now spends his time researching the history of early Chinese immigrants in the U.S. His grandfather worked on building the railroads in America's west.
Mr. Chew discovered a short article in a Utah newspaper from the 1890's which described that while railroad workers were repairing some tracks [the railroads were completed in the late 1860's to 1870's], they discovered 20,000 pounds of human bones. Who's bones were these? Native Americans? There weren't that many in that area. The article did mention that the bones were packed up and shipped back to China.
In other words, after the construction was complete, there were lots of unemployed workers. Why not simply get rid of the competition? |
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