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Group: American Federation of Labor (AFL)
Topic: Grand Embassy of Peter the Great
Location: Auch Midi-Pyrenees France

The Central Pacific Railroad hires agents to …

Years: 1865 - 1865
March

The Central Pacific Railroad hires agents to recruit thousands of Chinese workers from Guangdong Province in March 1865.

In the United States, the western labor teams will be primarily made up of Chinese emigrant workers with up to twelve thousand such laborers employed by the Central Pacific Railroad, representing ninety percent of the entire work force.