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On March 25, 1911, a fire tore through the top three floors of New York's Asch Building, home of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company. On the eighth floor, where the blaze began, garment workers and ...
The Triangle Fire by Leon Stein, 1963 (ISBN 978-0-8014-7707-2) Fragments from the Fire: The Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire of March 25, 1911, a book of poetry by Chris Llewellyn, 1987 (ISBN 978-0-14-058586-5). Triangle: The Fire That Changed America by David Von Drehle, 2003 (ISBN 978-0-8021-4151-4)
The New York Times calls it "An enthralling chronicle".. Publishers Weekly states "Von Drehle's engrossing account, which emphasizes the humanity of the victims and the theme of social justice, brings one of the pivotal and most shocking episodes of American labor history to life".
Zito had been working as an elevator operator at Triangle Waist Company in Manhattan for six months when the fire broke out at the factory. On March 25, 1911, at approximately 4:40 pm on Saturday as the workday was ending, a fire flared up in a scrap bin under one of the cutters' tables at the northeast corner of the 8th floor. [ 4 ]
The strike lasted until February 10, 1910, producing union contracts at almost every shop, but not at Triangle Shirtwaist. [3] Triangle Shirtwaist became a synonym for "sweatshop" during the following year. On March 25, 1911, nearly 150 garment workers died as a result of a fire that consumed the factory. Workers were either burned to death or ...
As the fire spreads some of the locked doors are opened, but one door is jammed, and can’t be used. A telephone call is made to the tenth floor to have the workers evacuated, but there is no telephone on the ninth floor, so those workers weren’t told of the fire. Horse-drawn fire engines arrive and the firemen begin fighting the blaze.
The union also became more involved in electoral politics, in part as a result of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire on March 25, 1911, in which 146 shirtwaist makers (most of them young immigrant women) either died in the fire [14] that broke out on the eighth floor of the factory, or jumped to their deaths. Many of these workers were unable ...
Rose Schneiderman (April 6, 1882 – August 11, 1972) was a Polish-born American labor organizer and feminist, and one of the most prominent female labor union leaders. As a member of the New York Women's Trade Union League, she drew attention to unsafe workplace conditions, following the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911, and as a suffragist she helped to pass the New York state ...