The fire spread quickly. On that Saturday in March of 1911, black smoke billowed out of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory near Washington Square Park in New York City. The panicked workers inside, many ...

In Manhattan alone, there were over 450 textile factories, employing approximately 40,000 garment workers, many of them immigrants. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, located in the top floors of ...

opening shirtwaist factories in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Blanck partnered with his brothers and opened more around the country. Harris and Blanck with Triangle factory workers ...

At a trial of the factory’s owners afterward ... and the United Auto Workers. It just shows that the Triangle Shirtwaist fire still has lessons to impart, Bass said. “We forget a tragedy ...

New Yorkers gathered outside the site of the old factory to commemorate the 146 workers, mostly immigrant women of Italian and Jewish descent, who lost their lives at the Triangle Shirtwaist ...

It uses eyewitness accounts, court transcripts and other archives to construct a gripping tale about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire on March 25, 1911, which killed 146 workers in the ...

It is typically a time of protest and activism for workers around the world. What disastrous event does May Day commemorate? The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, an industrial disaster in New ...

NEW YORK, March 25, 1911 (UP) - I was walking through Washington Square when a puff of smoke issuing from the factory building ... All bodies recovered from Triangle Shirtwaist Co. fire NEW ...