The Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire

The following is an excerpt from people who died fighting Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire. "The Triangle" company ... in blood, the name will be written in the history of American workers' exercise, and this history feels like it will remember the name of this store's striker - "Crusade" . Jewish Daily Forward (Drail) On March 25, 1911, the triangle shirt West Factory Fire broke out. There is no right worker's rights and fire prevention equipment, or compliance.

Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire On 25th March 1911, a catastrophic fire broke out in New York. Specifically, it started on the 8th floor of a 10 - story Asch building, and the 1st floor of the 3rd floor belonged to the Triangle Shirtwaist. The fire spread to the upper floor and robbed the lives of 146 workers. Almost all of these workers are young women, mainly recent Jews or Italian immigrants. Some people may think that they lost their lives, so this case is not arson.

The following is an excerpt from people who died fighting Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire. "The Triangle" company ... in blood, the name will be written in the history of American workers' exercise, and this history feels like it will remember the name of this store's striker - "Crusade" . Jewish Daily Forward (Drail) On March 25, 1911, the triangle shirt West Factory Fire broke out. There is no right worker's rights and fire prevention equipment, or compliance.

Triangle Shirtwaist Company was created after Fire. Over the next four years, government agencies have developed a comprehensive labor reform plan, including fire hazards, dangerous machinery, housework, and 56 laws on wages and working hours for women and children. Labor laws created represent the most advanced labor laws in the United States. To accomplish these reforms, urban political bosses have formed an alliance with middle class progressiveists like women from the New York state factory committee as representative of the New York state consumer alliance. (Perkins later served as the first female minister during the Franklin Roosevelt administration she served as the Minister of Labor.

About 10,000 people who burned at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory gathered to see the fire were Frances Perkins (1880-1965), later became the first woman of the Cabinet Office under the guidance of President Franklin D. Roosevelt It was. Perkins actively encouraged women and children to shorten the working hours to 54 hours and made a corner speech to claim women's voting rights. But the fire of the triangle shirt is her turning point.