time to remember
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delux_vivens: It's the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, in which 146 immigrant workers died. They were locked in.
The Triangle Fire tragically illustrated that fire inspections and precautions were woefully inadequate at the time. Workers recounted their helpless efforts to open the ninth floor doors to the Washington Place stairs. They and many others afterwards believed they were deliberately locked-- owners had frequently locked the exit doors in the past, claiming that workers stole materials. For all practical purposes, the ninth floor fire escape in the Asch Building led nowhere, certainly not to safety, and it bent under the weight of the factory workers trying to escape the inferno. Others waited at the windows for the rescue workers only to discover that the firefighters' ladders were several stories too short and the water from the hoses could not reach the top floors. Many chose to jump to their deaths rather than to burn alive.
The owners were never held accountable for the deaths. This is what the teabaggers would have us make legal again. Because it's not enough for them that right now, today, immigrant workers are subjected to similar conditions illegally. Let's make the horror show legal, amirite? Those fines are so annoying.
delux_vivens: It's the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, in which 146 immigrant workers died. They were locked in.
The Triangle Fire tragically illustrated that fire inspections and precautions were woefully inadequate at the time. Workers recounted their helpless efforts to open the ninth floor doors to the Washington Place stairs. They and many others afterwards believed they were deliberately locked-- owners had frequently locked the exit doors in the past, claiming that workers stole materials. For all practical purposes, the ninth floor fire escape in the Asch Building led nowhere, certainly not to safety, and it bent under the weight of the factory workers trying to escape the inferno. Others waited at the windows for the rescue workers only to discover that the firefighters' ladders were several stories too short and the water from the hoses could not reach the top floors. Many chose to jump to their deaths rather than to burn alive.
The owners were never held accountable for the deaths. This is what the teabaggers would have us make legal again. Because it's not enough for them that right now, today, immigrant workers are subjected to similar conditions illegally. Let's make the horror show legal, amirite? Those fines are so annoying.