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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Did you know that Betty Smith - the author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn was completely of German descent? No Irish blood at all but she loved to write about them. I’ve written fan letters to her daughter - and she’s always responded very kindly.
You simply can’t compare the creepy Wisconsin agitators with some of the Labor activists of the past. They have more in common with the thugs of “On the Waterfront.” It truly was a terrible world for the poor immigrants of early 20th century NY. Some of my family suffered under those awful conditions.
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