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Within two years, New York State passed more than 30 labor laws, adding teeth to child labor protections, setting a minimum wage, and requiring safer conditions. Federal regulations followed during President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal in the 1930's. Jobs for New Americans

http://www.pri.org/stories/2011-03-23/100-years-after-triangle-shirtwaist-factory-fire

“More than 30 labor-related laws written by the New York (State) Factory Investigating Commission, which was established in response to the fire and has been credited with developing a new model for worker safety in U.S. mills and workshops, eventually were adopted by the state legislature.”

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Today in history: March 25, 1911 - The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire.

A fire in lower Manhattan kills 146 women workers, mostly immigrants, at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory. The tragedy highlights the criminally dangerous conditions under which the they were forced to work. The fire became a rallying cry for unions and caused an outpouring of support for the workers and for improving working conditions.

(image from Pro Labor Alliance Inc.)

Via Freedom Road Socialist Organization (Fight Back!)

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Photograph of Fire Fighters at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, 03/25/1911

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One of the deadliest industrial disasters in United States history, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City left 146 workers dead in 18 minutes on March 25, 1911.

Locked doors kept the workers from escaping; there was not enough water to put out the flames, and firemen’s ladders were too short to reach the upper stories. Many of the young women and men working there leapt out the windows and fell to their deaths onto the sidewalk outside. Others were crushed in the elevator shaft or when the fire escape collapsed.

The fire led to sweeping reforms in labor laws and safety standards, providing a boost to labor unions, and was a pivotal event in the career of future labor secretary Frances Perkins.

via Prologue: A Factory Fire and Frances Perkins

Our post from 2012 has additional photos of the fire and the victims, a few may be considered graphic.

(We’re assuming the photo above shows fdny in action at the fire.)

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On March 25, 1911, a match was dropped and a factory exploded with fire, resulting in one of the highest losses of life from an industrial accident in the US. 146 people—mostly women—were burned alive, succumbed to smoke inhalation, or were forced to jump from the eighth, ninth, and tenth stories of the Asche Building* in New York City. Factory owners had locked the doors to stairwells and fire escapes to stop the women from taking unauthorized breaks and to stem the theft of the materials and products from the factory floor.

The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, which led to legislation to improve industrial safety standards for workers and the founding of the American Society of Safety Engineers, remains a stark reminder of the harsh conditions under which workers, including women and children, were forced to toil before workplace safety initiatives were widely employed in the US. Read more at pbs.org.

The two images above depict a view of the Asche Building interior after the fire and a demonstration of protest and mourning held several weeks after the fire.

See the entire set of powerful images from the National Archives and Records Administration collection here.

*Now the Brown Building, a part of the campus of New York University (NYU). It is located at 23-29 Washington Place, between Greene Street and Washington Square East in Greenwich Village, New York City. More.

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The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York on March 25 (1911) is considered one of the deadliest industrial distasters in US history. Had the 4th highest loss of life from an industrial accident in U.S. history. 146 garment workers died as a result most of which either burned to death or jumped to their deaths. Now the really crazy thing about this is that most of the workers couldn’t escape because the managers had locked the doors to all the exits and stairwells.The company’s owners, Max Blanck and Isaac Harris were tried in court and were acquitted but lost the civil law suit.

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Policemen and onlookers watch as workers jump to their deaths to escape the extreme heat and smoke during the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire which killed 146. 1911

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Jacob A. Riis, by Pirie MacDonald, he United States Library ofCongress'sPrints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3b05563

If like Diogenes, we were looking for aman, we would have found it in the person of Jacob Riis.

1. His life

Coming from a Danish family, he...

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Pictured above are some famous photographs taken by Jacob Riis. Riis’ amazing pictures clearly depicted the lives of many tenements living in the slums. Without his work, the harsh realities of these people would never have been known to the rest of the world.

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No child should have to sleep outside. New York City, USA (1889)

Photo: Jacob Riis

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BANDITS’ ROOST, NYC | AND TO THINK THAT I SAW IT ON MULBERRY STREET « The Selvedge Yard

…Manhattan’s Lower East Side, particularly the wretched areas known as Mulberry Bend and Bone Alley were teeming with poverty, violence and disease– “The whole district is a maze of narrow, often unsuspected passage ways—necessarily, for there is scarce a lot that has not two, three, or four tenements upon it, swarming with unwholesome crowds.” Jacob Riis wrote the epic, “How the Other Half Lives, Studies Among the Tenements of New York” published in 1890 (which also featured his iconic photography) to expose the horrible truth…

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Bandit’s Roost at 59½ Mulberry Street, at the time, considered the most crime-ridden, dangerous part of New York City. Photo by Jacob Riis (1888)

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Jacob Riis.

Bandits’ Roost, NYC

1. Bandit’s Roost (1888), by Jacob Riis, from “How the Other Half Lives.” Bandit’s Roost, at 59½ Mulberry Street (Mulberry Bend), was the most crime-ridden, dangerous part of all New York City.

2. Mulberry Bend (ca. 1888), photo by Jacob Riis. “Five Points (and Mulberry Street), at one time was a neighborhood for the middle class. But when they had water problems because of an underground spring, the area was abandoned to the poor. It was the first American slum. In 1880 there were 37,000 tenements housing nearly 1.1 million people. Most were one or two room apartments. There was no running water and the bedrooms often had no windows at all. The buildings were so close together people could hand things across the alley, window to window. Mulberry Bend was one of the worst stretch of slums and in 1896 it was demolished to be turned into Columbus Park. Chinatown and Little Italy encroached, as did federal buildings to the south.

3. Mullen’s Alley (February 12, 1888), photo by Jacob Riis. “There were thousands of homeless children on the streets (of NYC), often abandoned by their parents… and in the summer months 3-4 babies would suffocate in the airless tenements every night.”

4. ca. 1880-1890, Manhattan’s Lower East Side — Photo by Jacob Riis. “More than 100,000 immigrants lived in rear apartments (behind other buildings) that were wholly unfit for human habitation. In a room not thirteen feet either way slept twelve men and women, two or three in bunks set in a sort of alcove, the rest on the floor. There were also rooms where people could sleep for five cents a night, stranger next to stranger.”

5. ca. 1888–1898 — Dens of Death

6. 1885, Lower East Side, NY — Shelter for immigrants in a Bayard Street tenement, where a group of men share one room. – Photo by Jacob Riis, Image © Bettmann/Corbis

8. 1902, New York City — A classroom full of children in the condemned Essex Market School. A teacher demonstrates on the blackboard, as students watch attentively from crowded pews. Note the open gas jets near the ceiling used for lighting. — Photo by Jacob Riis, Image © Bettmann/Corbis

9. ca. 1890s, New York — Three homeless boys sleep on a stairway in a Lower East Side alley. – Photo by Jacob Riis, Image © Bettmann/Corbis

10. Little Italy, Mulberry Street, New York City by Detroit Publishing, ca. 1900 (Library of Congress)

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