Important Anniversary - March 25th, 2011 will be 100 years...

[ProudDad]

"On March 25, 1911, a fire that broke out in a bin holding scraps of fabric at the Triangle Waist Company, just down the block from New York City’s Washington Square Park, quickly spread, fed by cotton garments, tissue paper and wooden fixtures. Though the building that housed the clothing manufacturer was modern and advertised as fireproof, the cramped layout of the factory, a locked exit door, a flimsy fire escape that soon crumpled and inadequate fire department equipment brought a staggering loss of life. Within a half-hour, 146 workers had died, mostly young Jewish and Italian women, nearly half still in their teens. Two were only 14. More than a third of the victims jumped or fell from upper-story windows trying to escape the flames."

http://www.thenation.com/article/159282/remembering-triangle-fire?rel=emailNation

[catbyte]

1. And if the Teabaggers have their way, factories will be hell holes again.

Who do you think the first GOP/TP politican will be to try to reintroduce Debtor's Prisons and Indentured Servitude?

Diane
Anishnabe in MI

Edited for typo