There's a also a monument in Evergreens Cemetery, Brooklyn which I've visited.
My gg-grandparents are buried nearby.
Posted on 03/23/2011 8:57:11 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
This column is based on eyewitness accounts, trial transcripts, testimony, and information from the New York City Fire Dept. and the New York Historical Society.
It is the harrowingly small amount of sidewalk that may hit you when you stand in front of the building that housed the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, where 100 years ago this March 25, 146 garment workers -- 129 women, 17 men -- perished in a murderous fire that ranks as one of the worst this nation has ever known.
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I always heard that it was the union people who started the fire.
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HBO has a biased story on this. Most of it is about how unions are the answer to everything.
So who do we blame for the Boston Molasses Disaster ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Molasses_Disaster
Willy Wonka?
So who do we blame for the Boston Molasses Disaster ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Molasses_Disaster
Willy Wonka?
The original “Reichstag Fire.”
A very good case can be made that if it were not for prohibition removing their ability to market their product the American Industrial Alcohol Company wouldn't have pushed production beyond capacity and thus overloaded the tank.
&^%$ Progressives
But of course it seldom is looked at from that angle.
To the unions this was a watershed moment for them and if they were faced with the same thing today they’d probably do everything in their power to make sure it happened.
Oh, my God. This is really taking the cake. Do you honestly think there were no sweat shops in New York City at that time??! And no bad bosses who locked the doors on their employees?! Maybe you should call this into one of Michael Medved’s “Conspiracy Theory” shows.
And let’s not forget the Babbs Switch fire in Oklahoma,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babbs_Switch_fire
I suppose what you say goes equally for unions.
Unions were needed then; but then unions became corrupt and crooked, run by thugs and criminals who love money even more than the original sweat shop owners did.
Agreed. The best tool can be used for cross purposes. The axe use to build a cabin can just as easily be used to kill.
Of course it’s also easier to put a capitalist out of business, than a union.
I love the quote from Shane! Good for you!
What is it with some Freepers? Now we have Triangle Shirtwaist Factory deniers!
Some of you non-NYers should know that there are still endless amounts of sweatshops in Chinatown. In Newark, NJ, sweatshop workers slaved in the worst slums until the early 1990s. This is the dark side of my part of the world - nothing to be proud of and something not to be denied.
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