March 25, 1911 in New York City fire. Triangle Shirtwaist factory was a typical clothing, which was working 10-12 hours a day. Sewing were from 7 to 10 ten-storey building. Gas lamps lit them. There he stored materials.
Seamstresses, immigrants or daughters of immigrants from Italy and Eastern Europe, were mostly young and unmarried. The youngest was a dozen years.
fire broke out on Saturday afternoon, just before closing the factory. On the seventh floor. Perhaps the cigarette. Can match. Maybe gas lamp. The spark fell on the bales of cotton and the rest is history.
Worker of the eighth and tenth floors managed to escape from the hall, but only to find themselves trapped in evacuation stairs and elevators, which collapsed under their weight. On the ninth floor, panicked girls were locked Escape doors - one of the masters locked it on purpose to seamstresses not slipped up on a cigarette at work, or to prevent theft of materials. Slammed the doors have not been able to balance on time.
factory employed about 500 workers. The fire has claimed 146 of them. Most burned alive. Dozens killed by jumping out a window. Some were killed in zawalonymi escape stairs. Still others were burned in elevators.
Triangle Shirtwaist fire in it was considered one of the largest industrial disaster in U.S. history. And then there was the process and factory owners - Max Blanck and Isaac Harris - were acquitted of charges failure to provide job security.
International Women's Day is an American invention, like Labor Day. Its initiators wanted to draw attention to working conditions and low wages workers employed in light industry, the problems that are "coming out" on the streets of New York since the mid-nineteenth century. I simply have rozganiane by the police.
why this day is a celebration of women working.
In Italy March 8 obdarowywuje all Women mimosa.
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