| Summary: | The "Iron Chink" was named after the Chinese laborers it was invented to replace. Racist terms like this were painfully common in the 1900s, a time marked by anti-Chinese violence throughout the Northwest. Although much of the salmon canning process was mechanised in the early years of the twentieth century, the butchering process was done by hand by laborors who migrated up and down the North Pacific coast every year. The machine could perform the work of fifty butchers. It was displayed at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE) in 1909. 1 Slicer, Meat; Materials: iron; Dimensions: 8 ft.H x 5 ft.W x 7 ft.D estimated 2,000 lbs.
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