Triangle Factory Fire, 1911

If I was an average citizen of New York, March 25th, and I read the newspaper and the articles in it pertaining to the fire, I would have been horrified. Not only because of the tragic fact that 146 men and women had died, but also because of the fact that something like that was able to happen; it takes a lot of ignorance to allow something as large as that to happen.

After the incidents of The Triangle Factory Fire, it proved that the Progressive Era wasn't so progressive; people were not getting treated properly either in or out of their workplace, and the dangers and risks were all still there. If the factory actually had proper standards in the way it was run, there would of not ever been a fire. Plus the fact that the employers didn't trust the workers didn't help; if they trusted their workers, they would never have barred up/locked the one door connecting to the fire escape on the ninth floor, and many more of the 146 men and women would have survived the holocaust.