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In this age of practically everybody wishing to be politically correct, why do so many well meaning people insist on calling Sleeping Car Porters "PULLMAN PORTERS"?. <br />Study of the labor and human rights struggle will reveal that it is/well known that it was considered improper and rude to call a porter: "GEORGE" . This implied that the porter was "George Pullman's "BOY". <br />So why, again, must we give the Porter Mr Pullman's name as part of his title. He is NOT George Pullman's BOY, he is: a SLEEPING CAR PORTER by title. <br />I am a bit suprised in that even some hard researching authors have made this mistake many times.
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