100 years ago today a fire broke out in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York. Poor emergency preparation resulted in the deaths of 146 seamstresses on the 8th to 10th floors. Firefighters ladders could not reach the trapped women. Emergency workers could only watch as they were consumed by fire or as they jumped to their deaths.
This event is used to support the value of unions as the workers had only weeks before been fighting for better and safer working conditions. With or without a union, this should never have happened and should not be forgotten.
1 comment:
I read that they were locked in, too.
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