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**averkif** · 03-23-2011, 06:09 AM

Triangle’s owners, Max Blanck and Isaac Harris, had fiercely opposed the general strike of Lower East Side garment workers two years earlier and had hired thugs to beat up their seamstresses when they picketed the plant. They rebuffed the union’s demand for sprinklers and unlocked stairwells — and when these facts became widely known in the fire’s aftermath, outrage swept the city. Blanck and Harris were tried for manslaughter — but acquitted in the absence of any laws that set workplace safety standards
100 years ago.. March 25 1911, 146 people had either died by fire or jumped to their deaths. Most were young women, almost entirely Jewish or Italian immigrants, many still in their teens, one just 14.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio...y.html?hpid=z6

**StizePypemype** · 03-23-2011, 08:06 AM

This was an interesting piece of history I was unaware of check out the documentary on HBO.

**Cigarsstoreonline** · 03-23-2011, 04:35 PM

its stunning isn't it? I'm gonna find the book

Businesses reacted as if the revolution had arrived. The changes to the fire code, said a spokesman for the Associated Industries of New York, would lead to “the wiping out of industry in this state.” The regulations, wrote George Olvany, special counsel to the Real Estate Board of New York City, would force expenditures on precautions that were “absolutely needless and useless.”

“The best government is the least possible government,” said Laurence McGuire, president of the Real Estate Board. “To my mind, this [the post-Triangle regulations] is all wrong.”

**overavantstandard** · 03-23-2011, 07:32 PM

I recall reading about that in school...But I can't remember whether it was History or Current Events...

...Ben

**Jxmwzgpv** · 03-23-2011, 09:15 PM

lol BEN!

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**DavidShreder** · 03-24-2011, 03:59 AM

One of the owners (Blanck, I believe) was later caught locking the exits to another factory he owned.
He was fined $20.

Mac

**QysnZWB4** · 03-24-2011, 08:06 PM

One of the owners (Blanck, I believe) was later caught locking the exits to another factory he owned.
He was fined $20.

Mac

yep, that poor man forced to hand over his hardearned profit by that evil overgrown government...

03-23-2011, 06:09 AM	#1
averkif Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 405 Senior Member	the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Triangle’s owners, Max Blanck and Isaac Harris, had fiercely opposed the general strike of Lower East Side garment workers two years earlier and had hired thugs to beat up their seamstresses when they picketed the plant. They rebuffed the union’s demand for sprinklers and unlocked stairwells — and when these facts became widely known in the fire’s aftermath, outrage swept the city. Blanck and Harris were tried for manslaughter — but acquitted in the absence of any laws that set workplace safety standards 100 years ago.. March 25 1911, 146 people had either died by fire or jumped to their deaths. Most were young women, almost entirely Jewish or Italian immigrants, many still in their teens, one just 14. http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio...y.html?hpid=z6 Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter
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StizePypemype Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 479 Senior Member	This was an interesting piece of history I was unaware of check out the documentary on HBO. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter
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03-23-2011, 04:35 PM	#3
Cigarsstoreonline Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 336 Senior Member	its stunning isn't it? I'm gonna find the book Businesses reacted as if the revolution had arrived. The changes to the fire code, said a spokesman for the Associated Industries of New York, would lead to “the wiping out of industry in this state.” The regulations, wrote George Olvany, special counsel to the Real Estate Board of New York City, would force expenditures on precautions that were “absolutely needless and useless.” “The best government is the least possible government,” said Laurence McGuire, president of the Real Estate Board. “To my mind, this [the post-Triangle regulations] is all wrong.” Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter
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03-23-2011, 07:32 PM	#4
overavantstandard Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 446 Senior Member	I recall reading about that in school...But I can't remember whether it was History or Current Events... ...Ben Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter
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Jxmwzgpv Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 434 Senior Member	lol BEN! . Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter
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03-24-2011, 03:59 AM	#6
DavidShreder Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 434 Senior Member	One of the owners (Blanck, I believe) was later caught locking the exits to another factory he owned. He was fined $20. Mac Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter
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03-24-2011, 08:06 PM	#7
QysnZWB4 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 482 Senior Member	One of the owners (Blanck, I believe) was later caught locking the exits to another factory he owned. He was fined $20. Mac yep, that poor man forced to hand over his hardearned profit by that evil overgrown government... Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter
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