The 100th Anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

"March 25, 2011 is the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, which claimed the lives of 146 young immigrant women, who worked in a sweatshop in New York. Here is an eyewitness account of the fire, and, agnostic as I am, if you read this and do not weep, you truly have no soul. The year previous many of those same girls had gone on strike, trying to force the men who owned the company to put in safety features, quit locking them in the building during business hours, and various other concessions. They were not successful, and a year later 146 of them died in some of the most gruesome ways imaginable."

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