MESSAGE FROM ASSEMBLYMEMBER HARRY BRONSON

NYS Assembly Marks the 100th Anniversary of Tragic Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

Albany, N.Y.--  This week, I joined my colleagues in commemorating the one-hundreth anniversary of the tragic Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. This event, which occurred one hundred years ago today, took the lives of 146 garment workers, all of whom were women. The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire marked the most vivid symbol of the need for workplace safety rules. It also started the movement to fight for safer working conditions.

The need for workplace safety and ending sweatshops continues today. As a people we must remain vigilant to ensure that a similar tragedy never happens again.

-The Honorable Harry B. Bronson, NYS Assembly, District 131 

To view the Assembly Resolution commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, please click here.

For an earlier Voice Reporter post on the PBS documentary of this tragic event, you can go here.