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Behind the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Fox Business ^
| March 23, 2011
| By Elizabeth MacDonald
Posted on 03/23/2011 8:57:11 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
This column is based on eyewitness accounts, trial transcripts, testimony, and information from the New York City Fire Dept. and the New York Historical Society.
It is the harrowingly small amount of sidewalk that may hit you when you stand in front of the building that housed the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, where 100 years ago this March 25, 146 garment workers -- 129 women, 17 men -- perished in a murderous fire that ranks as one of the worst this nation has ever known.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: New York
KEYWORDS: goonions; goonionthugs; trianglefire; unions
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This was when in our Nation's History Unions were needed. Not now.
To: US Navy Vet
I always heard that it was the union people who started the fire.
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posted on
03/23/2011 9:00:55 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both)
To: US Navy Vet
To: US Navy Vet
HBO has a biased story on this. Most of it is about how unions are the answer to everything.
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posted on
03/23/2011 9:02:50 AM PDT
by
KeyLargo
To: US Navy Vet
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posted on
03/23/2011 9:05:26 AM PDT
by
WOBBLY BOB
( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
To: US Navy Vet
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posted on
03/23/2011 9:05:34 AM PDT
by
WOBBLY BOB
( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
To: BenLurkin
The original “Reichstag Fire.”
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posted on
03/23/2011 9:06:49 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: WOBBLY BOB
So who do we blame for the Boston Molasses Disaster ? A very good case can be made that if it were not for prohibition removing their ability to market their product the American Industrial Alcohol Company wouldn't have pushed production beyond capacity and thus overloaded the tank.
&^%$ Progressives
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posted on
03/23/2011 9:13:35 AM PDT
by
Cowman
(How can the IRS seize property without a warrant if the 4th amendment still stands?)
To: US Navy Vet
This tragedy could just as easily serve as an object lesson about Tammany Hall corruption as management/labor relations.
But of course it seldom is looked at from that angle.
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posted on
03/23/2011 9:15:40 AM PDT
by
skeeter
To: US Navy Vet
To the unions this was a watershed moment for them and if they were faced with the same thing today they’d probably do everything in their power to make sure it happened.
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posted on
03/23/2011 9:20:11 AM PDT
by
MeganC
(NO WAR FOR OIL! ........except when a Democrat's in charge.)
To: BenLurkin
Oh, my God. This is really taking the cake. Do you honestly think there were no sweat shops in New York City at that time??! And no bad bosses who locked the doors on their employees?! Maybe you should call this into one of Michael Medved’s “Conspiracy Theory” shows.
To: US Navy Vet
Cornell University website has a very good
Remembrance of the tragedy.
There's a also a monument in Evergreens Cemetery, Brooklyn which I've visited.
My gg-grandparents are buried nearby.
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posted on
03/23/2011 9:20:35 AM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: WOBBLY BOB; US Navy Vet
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posted on
03/23/2011 9:23:55 AM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Visit the TOMMY FRANKS MILITARY MUSEUM in HOBART, OK. I did, well worth it!)
To: dfwgator
"A gun is a tool, Marion, no better or no worse than any other tool, an axe, a shovel or anything. A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Remember that." -- Shane
Capitalism is a tool a good tool that's created a good life for many. But like any tool its only as good or bad as the men using it. Just because someone is a Capitalist or something is Capitalist doesn't necessarily make it right. Something for the 'laissez-faire' FReeper Capitalist should bear in mind.
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posted on
03/23/2011 9:24:30 AM PDT
by
Kartographer
(".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
To: Kartographer
I suppose what you say goes equally for unions.
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posted on
03/23/2011 9:27:14 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: US Navy Vet
Unions were needed then; but then unions became corrupt and crooked, run by thugs and criminals who love money even more than the original sweat shop owners did.
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posted on
03/23/2011 9:28:07 AM PDT
by
Twinkie
( PEACE)
To: dfwgator
Agreed. The best tool can be used for cross purposes. The axe use to build a cabin can just as easily be used to kill.
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posted on
03/23/2011 9:30:36 AM PDT
by
Kartographer
(".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
To: MeganC
To the unions this was a watershed moment for them and if they were faced with the same thing today theyd probably do everything in their power to make sure it happened.
Of course today the Wisconsin State Capitol would probably have to catch fire...
To: Kartographer
Of course it’s also easier to put a capitalist out of business, than a union.
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posted on
03/23/2011 9:32:06 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Kartographer
I love the quote from Shane! Good for you!
What is it with some Freepers? Now we have Triangle Shirtwaist Factory deniers!
Some of you non-NYers should know that there are still endless amounts of sweatshops in Chinatown. In Newark, NJ, sweatshop workers slaved in the worst slums until the early 1990s. This is the dark side of my part of the world - nothing to be proud of and something not to be denied.
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