The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire - Revolt of the Girls | 2

American History Tellers

Wondery

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, History, Education For Kids

4.7 • 18.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Inspired by the labor strikes at Triangle and other factories in Lower Manhattan, more than 30,000 garment workers took to the streets of New York in protest in late 1909. For the first time, an industry of women sought not to just halt production at one factory — they wanted to put the brakes on an entire trade.

With over four hundred garment factories shut down, factory owners banded together with police and the courts to fight the striking workers. But as the labor movement attracted new high-society allies, internal politics began to fracture the labor movement, threatening to derail the entire cause.

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0:09.6	Imagine this November 22nd, 1909.
0:21.8	You're an unemployed sleeve setter at the Triangle Factory.
0:24.9	For six weeks, you've been walking the picket lines.
0:27.6	This evening, you're hurring to the vast basement hall at Cooper Union College to hear debates
0:32.6	over a general strike.
0:35.4	You arrive late, and there's no seats left.
0:37.8	The main hall and a joint room are crammed full of people.
0:41.3	Your friend Clara is toward the back, leaning against a pillar, and you weave through the
0:45.1	crowd to join her.
0:46.7	She smiles when she sees you.
0:48.2	Ah, well, look who decided to show up.
0:50.5	I'd just stay and help the printers at Clinton Street get posters ready.
0:53.6	Well, you've missed 100% of nothing.
0:56.3	All these thinkers and writers, the president of the Trade Union League, none of them can
1:01.0	decide what they want to do.
1:03.8	You listen as the editor of the Jewish Daily Forward drones on, and you feel your excitement
1:08.4	fade into tedium.
1:09.4	I thought they were going to call for a strike.
1:11.6	Well, that's what everyone's waiting for, but all this talk, and for what?
1:16.5	Clara's shifting back and forth on the balls with her feet.
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