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Posted by randyo on Tue May 26 18:44:03 2015, in response to Re: Film About The Subway in 1949, posted by SelkirkTMO on Tue May 26 16:35:08 2015. Actually, that wasn’t quite true The BMT had a mix of Irish and Italians in the Southern Division and Irish German and Polish in the Eastern. The IND while it was the first division to employ minorities was still largely Irish at the time that movie was made. One of the reasons why the subways streetcar lines and bus lines had an inordinately large percentage of Irish employees was that unlike other immigrant groups, the Irish spoke English as soon as they entered the country due in large part to having the language forced on them by their British overlords. When speaking on her biography of her late husband Mike Quill, Shirley Quill commented that when they arrived in the US, the Irish spoke English “in a way” which is why they were well suited to jobs requiring interaction with the public like transportation. |
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