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Mulberry Street Bend, 1889

5-Cent Lodgings

Men’s Lodgings

Women’s Lodgings

Immigrant Family Lodgings

Dumbbell Tenement Plan Tenement House Act of 1879, NYC

Blind Beggar, 1888

Italian Rag-Picker

1890s ”Morgue” – Basement Saloon

”Black & Tan” Saloon

”Bandits’ Roost”

Mullen’s Alley ”Gang”

The Street Was Their Playground

Lower East Side Immigrant Family

A Struggling Immigrant Family

Another Struggling Immigrant Family

Rosa Schneiderman, Garment Worker

Child Labor

Average Shirtwaist Worker’s Week 51 hours or less4,5545% hours65,03379% hours12,21115% Over 63 hours5621% Total employees, men and women 82,360

Womens’ Trade Union League

Women Voting for a Strike!

Local 25 with Socialist Paper, The Call

Social and Political Activists Clara Lemlich, Labor Organizer Carola Woerishoffer, Bryn Mawr Graduate

Public Fear of Unions/Anarchists

Arresting the Girl Strikers for Picketing

Scabs Hired

“The Shirtwaist Kings” Max Blanck and Isaac Harris

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Asch Building, 8 th and 10 th Floors

Typical NYC Sweatshop, 1910

Inside the Building After the Fire

Most Doors Were Locked

Crumpled Fire Escape, 26 Died

One of the Heroes

10 th Floor After the Fire

Dead Bodies on the Sidewalk

One of the “Lucky” Ones?

Rose Schneiderman The Last Survivor

Scene at the Morgue

Relatives Review Bodies 145 Dead

Page of the New York Journal

One of the Many Funerals

Protestors March to City Hall

Labor Unions March as Mourners

Women Workers March to City Hall

The Investigation

Francis Perkins Future Secetary Of Labor

Alfred E. Smith – Future NYC Mayor and Presidential Candidate

Future Senator Robert Wagner

Out of the Ashes ÔILGWU membership surged. ÔNYC created a Bureau of Fire Prevention. ÔNew strict building codes were passed. ÔTougher fire inspection of sweatshops.  Growing momentum of support for women ’ s suffrage.

The Foundations Were Laid for the New Deal Here in 1911 ÔAl Smith ran unsuccessfully in 1928 on many of the reform programs that would be successful for another New Yorker 4 years later – FDR. ÔIn the 1930s, the federal government created OSHA [the Occupational Safety & Health Administration]. ÔThe Wagner Act.  Francis Perkins  first female Cabinet member [Secretary of Labor] in FDR ’ s administration.

History of the Needlecraft Industry by Ernest Feeney, 1938