March 25, 1911. Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. 146* dead. First instance

[niyad]

of "dead peasant" insurance payoffs.

Never forget that THIS is what they would have us return to. .completely unregulated businesses.


123 women and young girls, 23 men. Mostly immigrants.

[Quakerfriend]

1. Yes- They intend to role back all labor laws.

FL and AK talking about making child labor legal.

[niyad]

6. All labor laws, any reguulations of any kind.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. Okay, you got it. I was going to write.

From none other than you, when you get right down to it:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/11637048

Thanks, and good evening.

[niyad]

4. As always, my deepest thanks for your amazing compilation.

[LoisB]

3. Am I remembering correctly that the doors were locked? Many jumped to their deaths.

[niyad]

5. Yes, you do.

[jmowreader]

7. Yes you are

That's one of the seven things that made this fire a disaster.

Let's see...
1. The factory was on the 8th, 9th and 10th floors of the warehouse.
2. The doors were locked.
3. There were no fire escapes on the outside of the building.
4. The product they were making, and the materials they made it from, were combustible.
5. They didn't believe in removing the scraps from the building every day, rather letting them build up over time, or cleaning up the fabric dust.
6. All the sewing and cutting equipment was powered by driveshafts turned by gasoline engines.
7. The manager who had the only key to the doors fled the building the second he saw fire - taking the key with him.

[LoisB]

8. Right. Thank you.

[electric_blue68]

12. #5, and especially #6 are eye opening! #7 a shame, probably could have saved himself, and others acting fast enough?

Grrrrrrrrr.

[SheltieLover]

9. Kick

[niyad]

10. Thank you.

[SheltieLover]

11. Thank you for posting about this.

You are right -- this is what the American Taliban wants for women and immigrants!

[electric_blue68]

13. I'm a born & bred NYC'r. I probably saw the Plaque for the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire back in very early 1970's...

bc I was going to The Cooper Union College [Art, Architecture, Engineering & Science) about 4 - 5ish street blocks away eastward. It sits at the edge what is called The Village (after west of 6th Ave it's Greenwich Village, and The West Village), east of it becomes The East Village.

So I'd be wandering about getting to know the area, and I guess I passed the building at some point. It's possible - since it was a liberal paper back then; the NY Post nay have had an article at some point, and I'd been reading it for 2 1/2 yrs back then.
Probably revisited the sign purposefully at some later point .