New York's Tragedy: The Triangle Fire of 1911, Part 1

harsh punishments and large fines were given in hopes to end the strikes but the strikers had wealthy women who offered to pay the fines of the young girls arrested, some spending thousands on girls they had never met. ¹⁰

The manufactures agreed to pay higher wages and have shorter hours but refused to only hire union members. The union rejected the proposal and refused to discuss anything less than union recognition and employing only unionists. Blanck and Harris never accepted the closed shop and the union eventually came around when they were offered that the company would not prohibit union membership along with higher wages and shorter hours. Unexplainably they still refused to leave the doors unlocked. ¹¹

References

¹Burn Victim Center. [Online] Accessed February 10, 2004, Available: http://www.burn-victim-center.com

²Von Drehle, David. Triangle. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2003

³Ibid.

⁴New York Times. March 26, 1911

⁵Von Drehle, Triangle

⁷Ibid.

⁸Ibid.

⁹Wolensky, Ken, Wolensky, Nicole, & Wolenski, Robert. Fighting for the Union Labor. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University, 2002

¹⁰Von Drehle, Triangle

¹¹Dash, Joan. We Shall Not Be Moved. New York: Scholastic Hardcover, 1996; see also Von Drehle, Triangle

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