[ansel12]

“”””It Was Irish Who “Need Not Apply”””””

That appears to be fake history since historians can’t find the evidence of it.

[CharlesOConnell]

Ansel 12: "That appears to be fake history since historians can’t find the evidence of it."
 
Me and My Lying Eyes

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Last phrase, second ad, just above the second rule.

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Second to the last line, main complete ad.

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A young electrician-journeyman, a blond-haired Minnesota Viking, sang a song to me that must have been passed down to him from his great-great-great-grandparents:
 
Clancey Fell Down Drunk in the Ditch

[Leaning Right]

Back in those days, “No Irish need apply” was not an uncommon phrase in newspaper help-wanted ads. Those ads have survived in newspaper archives. Here’s one example.

https://voices.pitt.edu/TeachersGuide/Unit%205/NoIrishNeedApply.htm

But you are right about one thing. When it came to hard manual labor, the robber barons didn’t care who showed up at the mill gate.