Team player and highly self-motivated individual.Īble and willing to learn new positions in a short period of time.ģ+ months of manufacturing or production experienceĤ01(k) with a 6% company match- vested IMMEDIATELY!Įmployee Referral program earn a $500-$1000 bonus for a successful referral Must be comfortable in year-round outdoor temperatures, in loud conditions, with airborne particles (sawdust), and working around moving mechanical equipment Move quickly, consistently and safely to keep up with the current flow of productionĪbility to lift up to 60 lbs., stand up to 10 hours a day, reach with hands and arms, climb stairs, stoop and bend at the waist, and move equipment as needed Stacking and packaging lumber for shipment Today, the old Chinatown has disappeared, paved over for vast parking lots for Spokane's performing arts and convention centers.Fuel allowance will be bumped up from $200 a month to $350 (or $175 per paycheck). These areas wer e demolished as part of construction projects spurred by Spokane's Expo '74.

population of about 500–600 Asians, they primarily lived in this small-roughly 6 blocks-space bordered by Spokane Falls Boulevard to the north and Main this was known as Trent Alley / Chinatown. The war years were difficult for the Japanese American community, which was often shunned and distrusted by the mainstream population, even though a number of Spokane Japanese Americans served heroically during the war. A flood of Japanese Americans from Seattle and the West Coast, seeking to avoid being sent to relocation camps, arrived in Spokane, causing the population to at least triple. 7, 1941, it marked the beginning of a population boom for Spokane's Japanese community, because Spokane was outside the coastal evacuation zone. A Buddhist congregation formed in 1945 and continues to this day. It became an important community center and evolved into the Highland Park United Methodist Church. A church called the Japanese Methodist Mission thrived. From 1909 to 1915, Spokane even had its own Japanese-language newspaper, The Spokane Times. This block was crammed with Japanese hotels, laundries, barbershops, apothecaries, grocery stores, and noodle restaurants. Most of the Japanese population lived in a few square blocks in downtown Spokane, variously called Trent Alley, Japanese Alley and Chinatown (even though it was far more Japanese in character than Chinese). They were often mistreated, and even, in a few instances, expelled or lynched. These young Japanese men worked for years in the Inland Northwest just to pay off their passage fare. Japanese immigrants first arrived in Eastern Washington during the late 1800s and early 1900s, mostly as railroad workers and mine laborers. In the 1880s and 1890s, the railroad and mine companies in the West attempted to solve their massive manpower needs by looking across the Pacific to Japan. Despite the low numbers of Chinese residents included in the 1900 census, there was a large Chinese population of mostly retired railroad workers living in the area between Howard and Washington Streets along the Spokane River. The railroad brought the “boom” to the boomtown that was Spokane, and the unsung heroes of this transformation into a regional hub were the Chinese immigrants who built the railroad. Chinese workers first showed up in the Spokane area as early as the 1850's and large numbers worked in the local mining and railroad industries, they experienced hostility, racism, violence, and legal exclusion as they labored to build the region’s railroad networks. The Great Northern Clocktower at Riverfront Park is what remains of the Great Northern Railroad Depot, a transportation hub for the region. This project allows us to share the history that was buried and erased starting with the Chinese Seclusion Act in 1882, the incarceration of Japanese American at internment camps during WW2 and tearing down Japan Alley/ Chinatown to make way for Expo 74. The 1902 Great Northern Depot and its iconic clock tower signaled the arrival of rail transport in central Spokane. Their efforts, which connected the western United States to the eastern United States, laid the foundation for the extraordinary economic prosperity enjoyed by the United States in the years that followed.

One of the greatest engineering feats in American history is the building of the railroads built by Chinese Immigrants.

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