Descendants of Chinese immigrant labourers who helped build America’s first transcontinental railway have seen them belatedly, but officially honoured at a ceremony in Washington.<br /><br />They were integrated into the US Labour Department’s Hall of Honour.<br /><br />An estimated 12,000 workers made up 85 percent of the force that built the line’s western leg in the 1860s.<br /><br />They faced dangerous conditions, low pay and social isolation.
