Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Presentation

womens right to vote

A huge progression in the movement was when in 1896 the state of Colorado was the first to adopt the amendment allowing women the right to vote

the bosses give in

By December 1909, they engaged in negotiations with the strikers offering increases in wages, and improvements in working conditions but stopped short of agreeing to allow the unions to organize in the factories.

The people fought hard against the movement but the power it held overcame the opposition

In 1911 The National Association Opposed to Womens Suffrage is founded.

Aftermath

It took nearly 100 years for all the victim of the fire to be positively identified, with the final 6 identifications completed just recently.

The start to women's rights

July 19 and 20th 300 people attended the first convention to discuss womens rights. Women were consistently fighting to claim their rightfully owed role in society. although they consistently demanded rights they weren't allowed to even vote until 1920

The Unjust Shirtwaist Fire

Max Steuer successfully defended the men during their trial in New York City for manslaughter by casting enough doubt on the key factor in the trial - Did Harris and Blanck know the exits were locked? The trial lasted 23 days and had 150 witnesses. Three years later, after several civil trials, the men settled at a rate of $75 per life. An insurance policy, however, paid Harris and Blanck about $400 per life lost. The men pocketed about $60,000 by the end of the ordeal. Over the next few years, the men were cited and fined numerous times for locking exit doors during business hours.The managers, Blanck and Harris were given little to no punishment for commiting mass manslaughter. Therefore, this was also an unjust case.

The movement of it across the nation.

Slowly people began to realize that what the women were saying began to seem only right, slowly across the nation more and more people began to follow The American Woman Suffrage Association

Aftermath pt. 2

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, one of the nation's most deadly and horrific, led to some of the nation's strongest changes in worker safety in the manufacturing industry. New York City and New York State, over the next few years, adopted the country's strongest worker safety protection laws.

The department of labor is formed

The Women's Bureau of the Department of Labor is formed to collect information about women in the workforce and safeguard good working conditions for women.

NYC

The main cities such as New York there was resentment from both the followers and the people that were resentful. Many of the Big Industry bosses resented the idea of women's rights because their workers would have to be treated better and have to be paid more causing trouble to their personal economic state.

FIRE

The manager turned the fire hose on it, but the hose was rotted and its valve was rusted shut. The elevator broke down after only four trips, and women began jumping down the shaft to their deaths. Those who fled down the wrong set of stairs were trapped inside and burned alive. Other women trapped on the eighth floor began jumping out the windows, which created a problem for the firefighters whose hoses were crushed by falling bodies. Also, the firefighters' ladders stretched only as high as the seventh floor, and their safety nets were not strong enough to catch the women, who were jumping three at a time.The fire was out within half an hour, but not before 49 workers had been killed by the fire, and another 100 or so were piled up dead in the elevator shaft or on the sidewalk.

Bosses

The owners if the factory were well aware of their complaints and terrible conditions but they would have rather seen the money going towards their families and into their pockets then paying their workers in a fair manner. When the women began to receive more and more attention, going against the bosses was never done before so this was a huge deal. When the bosses started to see an increases number of workers going on strike they began to do anything the could to try and stop them.

The Consequences

The trial lasted 23 days and had 150 witnesses. Three years later, after several civil trials, the men settled at a rate of $75 per life. An insurance policy, however, paid Harris and Blanck about $400 per life lost. The men pocketed about $60,000 by the end of the ordeal.

Trial

The trial lasted 23 days and had 150 witnesses.They got away with mass manslaughter.

The strikes

They attempted to stymie the workers by hiring prostitutes to fight with the women on the picket lines. Blanck and Harris hired ex-prize fighters to pick fights with the picketers. Bribed policemen arrested any who fought back and dragged them off to court bandaged and bloodied. Bribed judges found workers guilty. One by one the strikers saw their friends and co workers get beaten and dragged off to jail bloody, Destroyed and broke.

Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell, and others formed the American Women Suffrage Association.

This group focused on gaining voting rights for women.

Tom Robinson

Tom was convicted guilty of attacking a white women. Tom was an African American. This was an unjust case because the entire jury was white. Because of how it was back then there was no way the black person would not be found guilty. Therefore, this case was unjust.