We’re forgetting the lessons of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
When the young women of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory sat down before their Singer sewing machines on Saturday, Mar. 25, 1911, they could not know that their lives would soon be extinguished because of a lit cigarette. At around 4:40 p.m., a worker flicked a still-smoldering cigarette butt into a bin filled with paper patterns...
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