Wednesday, September 19, 2018

Did immigrants own the triangle factory? if so, what impact did that have?

Two Jewish immigrants, Max Blanck and Isaac Harris, owned the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, where 146 employees died in a horrific blaze. Some of the young women killed in the fire were recent Jewish immigrants, and all were European immigrants being exploited for low wages.
The Jewish community was horrified by the tragedy, which cut close to home, and rallied to help the families of the victims. Partially as a result of Triangle fire, Jewish candidate Meyer London of the Socialist Party was elected to the US Congress in 1914, showing that the disaster helped galvanize Jewish support for the labor movement. The owners, however, though immigrants who went on trial, were not held responsible for the fire or loss of life.

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