Friday marks the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, a tragedy that killed 146 garment workers, many of them young, immigrant women. Some even leapt to their deaths rather than burn ...

If Isidore Abramowitz set off the deadly blaze, his son Martin wants to know for sure. BOSTON (JTA) – Martin Abramowitz sits in Brookline’s Caffe Nero wearing a “Jews in Baseball” hat.

An officer stands at the Asch Building's 9th floor window after the Triangle fire. Sewing machines, drive shafts, and other wreckage of the Triangle factory fire are piled in the center of the ...

March 25th marks the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in downtown Manhattan. The fire started in a scrap bin on the 8th floor of the factory building, claiming the lives ...

The owners hired private policemen and thugs to beat, berate, and cause disarray ... a profit from the fire of $400 per victim. In 1913, Harris and Blanck moved the Triangle Shirtwaist Company ...

The fire spread quickly. On that Saturday in March of 1911, black smoke billowed out of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory near Washington Square Park in New York City. The panicked workers inside ...

Their cause attracted attention from the Industrial ... she formed a committee within the WTUL to protect the strikers of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory from abusive forces.

All bodies recovered from Triangle Shirtwaist Co. fire NEW YORK, March 26, 1911 (UP) - One hundred and forty one bodies had been taken to the morgue at 12:45 this morning and there had been seven ...