{"id":21281,"date":"2025-03-21T10:55:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T14:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitehere.org\/?post_type=campaign&p=21281"},"modified":"2025-03-24T09:32:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T13:32:06","slug":"triangle","status":"publish","type":"campaign","link":"https:\/\/unitehere.org\/project\/triangle\/","title":{"rendered":"Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Commemoration"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"1\"<\/a>March 25, 1911\u2026<\/h3>\n

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in New York City\u2019s Greenwich Village was one of the worst workplace disasters since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. The fire took the lives of 146 young immigrant garment workers. It also galvanized a reform movement to raise standards for workers.
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\u201cEach year, we commemorate the workers killed in the Triangle Fire. Most of them were young, immigrant women, and some were leaders in the fight to improve their working conditions. We are continually inspired\u00a0in our work by the transformation that began with their ultimate sacrifice. After the tragedy, their unions fought to organize the garment industry and establish health and safety laws that are still important for working people today. While the deaths of\u00a0the Triangle victims were preventable, their legacy lives on.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2014Gwen Mills, President, UNITE HERE<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nFirefighters struggled to save workers and control the blaze at what was then known as the Asch Building, on the corner of Greene Street and Washington Place. The tallest fire truck ladders reached only to the 6th floor, 30 feet below those standing on window ledges waiting for rescue. Many jumped from the windows to their deaths. Photographer: unknown, March 25, 1911.<\/p>\n

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An officer stands at the Asch Building\u2019s 9th floor window after the Triangle Fire. Sewing machines, drive shafts, and other wreckage of the factory fire are piled in the center of the room. Photographer: Brown Brothers, 1911.<\/p>\n

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In the April 5th funeral procession for the seven unidentified fire victims, members of the United Hebrew Trades of New York and the Ladies Waist and Dressmakers Union Local 25, International Ladies Garment Workers Union, the local that organized Triangle Waist Company workers, carry banners proclaiming, \u201cWe Mourn Our Loss.\u201d Photographer: unknown, April 5, 1911.<\/p>\n

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