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Re: The IRT pre-unification |
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Posted by randyo on Tue Oct 27 17:54:15 2020, in response to Re: The IRT pre-unification, posted by qveensboro_plaza on Tue Oct 27 13:28:59 2020. As long as you mentioned “connections” there were other organizations apart from the Holy Name society and local parishes that could pen doors. The reference to “Hibernians” doubtless refers to the Ancient Order of Hibernians (AOH) an Irish Catholic organization founded in 1838 to combat anti Catholic sentiment that existed in the US at the time and to provide certain benefits to its members similar to those afforded to Freemasons. Since the AOH was at the time restricted only to the Irish and their immediate descendants, in 1882 an Irish-American Priest founded the Knight's of Columbus (K of C) a similar benevolent association for Catholics who were not of the Irish ethnicity. Membership in either or in some cases both of those organizations was often a definite help to obtain employment in various places, the transit companies among them. Initially, of course membership in those organizations was not an instant path to employment or advancement but over the years as the Irish worked their way up the ladder into supervision and eventually management in the transit companies, membership in those organizations took on increasing importance. |
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