All of our seafood comes from the wild and is caught by local Westport fishing vessels. We pride ourselves on our high standards of quality. You can swing by seven days a week and pick yourselves up some hot and tasty local caught seafood. We have a variety of locally caught seafood on the menu. Astoria, Oregon, alone boasted 25 canneries. In , Columbia canneries produced , cases of salmon. Many of the laborers who did the difficult and dirty cannery work were Chinese immigrants.
George Hume employed the first Chinese workers in and they proved so efficient that by more than 4, Chinese men were working in Columbia River canneries. In the census, Chinese -- nearly all of them male cannery workers -- accounted for nearly one third of Wahkiakum County's total population.
The percentage declined after passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act of and few of the single male workers settled permanently in the county. Other immigrants, a large percentage of them from Scandinavian countries and the Balkans, caught most of the fish processed in the canneries.
Cannery owners rented small boats and nets to the fishermen. The two-man boats, powered by sail and oar, dragged long gillnets -- generally at night so the salmon wouldn't see them -- on which the salmon were caught by their gills.
Historian Richard White notes that while one gillnet boat's catch was small, the fleet of nearly 2, boats "covered the river below Portland from May to August. Their nets formed a vast floating barrier to salmon -- miles long by the late s if connected and stretched end to end" White, I like the razor clams and any of the fresh fish meals.
From Business: Nanci Main and late Jimella Lucas are two Northwest chefs who have created impeccable food legends and customer loyalty. Their Ark Restaurant and bakery in…. Some of the very best seafood I've bought. VERY fresh. On December 1, in a restaurant in Seattle, the nephew of a labor contractor awaited the arrival of President Virgil Duyungan and the secretary of the union, Aurelio Simon, whom he had invited to the Chinatown restaurant.
As the two labor leaders were sitting down to a meal, the nephew shot and killed them. The death of President Duyungan was the last ditch effort on the part of the contractors.
They thought they would have no more worries about the union with the death of its founder, but the Filipino Alaskeros and the leaders of the union proved them wrong. The death of Simon and Duyungan only brought shame and more hostility towards the contractors.
Duyungan and Simon became martyrs for the union and all laborers in Seattle. Thus, the men of the CWFLU all came together to recognize the accomplishments of their leader and hundreds of men came to the memorial services of their brothers in fraternity, Brothers Duyungan and Simon.
The funeral service and parade that followed was the largest ever given to Filipinos in the United States including that of the Philippine President Quezon in in Washington, D. Within the union, a committee was formed to investigate the murders and a Memorial Fund Committee was created and actively supported. Not only the members of the Seattle union, but Oregon and Californian unions contributed to this cause.
Also, other major labor unions including the Seattle Labor Council helped in the recognition of the brothers, again proving the unity the union shared immediately after this tragedy. Both men became martyrs in this community. The deaths did not kill the union.
The men came together to make major decisions. The first would be the new president. The vice-president, Casimiro A. Abella, immediately stepped up and regained order in their union and in November , a democratic election was held and Irineo R.
Cabatit was elected president and a new charter was written with the cooperation of Conrad Espe, a Norwegian American and considered one of the best leaders of the labor movement.
This helped in the progress of the union. Once Cabatit took over the presidency, many major events occurred within the union. One was the establishment of the closed shop, which eliminated the contract system completely and created plentiful jobs for the union members.
The A. The members of Local felt the discriminations that the American Federation of Labor were forcing upon its members and their criteria for membership. Thus, the men decided to break away from their affiliation with the A. This major decision was finalized, only two years after the death of its president and secretary. The union were making major decisions and moving forward full force. The men voted for this change of affiliation unanimously, again proving the fraternity of the union.
This was the birth of Local 7. The leadership and fraternity of the union stayed strong and the men proved their loyalty to each other as Alaskeros and continued their strength through unity years after the death of their founding fathers. By the time Trinidad Rojo took the office of presidency in , the union had made major steps in its transition to be a major player in the labor organizing.
Rojo continued to strengthen his union and the men continued to support their fellow Alaskeros. There were no major confrontations and disagreements with the union the few years following the two murders.
Before the Filipinos organized, Asian Americans had never built a lasting union.
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