TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FIRE, 1911

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TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FIRE, 1911

• Fire at garment making company resulted in 146
  deaths of girls and young women
• Important in the political mobilization of union
  activists and reformers
• Persuaded working class women to support woman
  suffrage
• Led to criminal and civil trials against the
  owners

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TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FIRE

• Prompted protests using several means
• Mass demonstrations at the funeral for the seven
  unidentified women
• Cartoons in labor, socialist, and mainstream
  press

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Max Blanck and Isaac Harris
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WEBSITES ON THE FIRE

• http//www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/
• http//www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/t
  riangle/trianglefire.html
• http//www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire//audio/def
  ault.html (audio interviews with survivors)