The event that led to the passsage of laws requiring safer factory working conditions was the sweat shop factories and the small stuffy unsafe factories.
Clothes
The Triangle Shirtwaist fire started in a fabric company occupying floors 8-10 of a 10 storey building. The workers were women and girls who were 15 and up. The fire was so horrible that people jumped out the window because they were afraid of burning to death. The metal fire escape failed under the weight of the many people trying to escape on it. One of the famous people who worked there was a guy named Max Blank.
waist overalls
A typical woman would have worn a robe under her arms and tied around her waist, leggings, a skirt (tied at the waist), and moccasins.
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the triangle shirt waist factory fire
the triangle shirt waist factory fire
the triangle shirt waist factory fire
Consumers pressured businesses by boycotting nonunion goods
The triangle shirt company was a manufacturer in New York City in the early 1900's which had child laborers. One day it burned down and they had all of the emergency exits locked. About 200 adults and children died.
A huge fire in The Triangle shirtwaist factory in New York. It killed 146 people. To escape the fire many just jumped out of the building and died that way.
umm they were shirt waist
A shirttail is part of a shirt below the waist line.
he wears a waist coat that is purple
So you can pull in your shirt tail
The International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (APEX) grew larger as a result of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.