New York J 570: Commemorating the 114th Anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire on March 25, 2025

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Senate Resolution No. 570

BY: Senator RAMOS

 COMMEMORATING the 114th Anniversary of the
 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire on March 25, 2025

 WHEREAS, It is the sense of this Legislative Body to commemorate the
114th Anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, which took
the lives of 146 garment workers, on March 25, 1911; and

 WHEREAS, It is also incumbent upon this Legislative Body, as we
commemorate this anniversary, to acknowledge the continued efforts of
Workers United/SEIU (formerly the International Ladies' Garment Workers'
Union) in empowering and protecting workers across the country; and

 WHEREAS, Each year, Workers United/SEIU, together with the New York
City Fire Department and the United Federation of Teachers, commemorates
the anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire at the original
site of the tragedy with a wreath, speeches and the laying of 146
flowers in honor of the fire victims; members of Ladder Company 20, the
first to respond to the fire, toll their bell and raise their ladder to
the sixth floor; and

 WHEREAS, The majority of the fire's victims were Jewish and Italian
immigrants, many of them young women, who might otherwise have survived
this tragedy had the factory's managers not locked the doors to the
stairwells so as to prevent theft and early departure; there was almost
no water that the workers trapped on the 8th, 9th, and 10th floors could
use to douse the rapidly spreading flames; doors that were not locked
opened the wrong way, leaving workers with no option for escape;
meanwhile the factory's owners were in the factory that same day with
their children, and were able to find their way to safety by escaping to
the building's rooftop; and

 WHEREAS, Since the doors to the stairwells were locked, dozens of
panicked factory employees attempted to escape via the building's
structurally compromised fire escape only for it to collapse onto the
concrete eight stories below; after the fire escape collapsed and the
stairways became inaccessible because of the smoke and heat, employees
were trapped in the building with no means of escape except by jumping;
and

 WHEREAS, Only three weeks prior to the fire, a group of property
owners had met to oppose the fire department's calls for the
installation of indoor sprinklers; the fire department's ladders were
not tall enough to reach beyond the sixth and seventh floors, leaving
the workers on the 8th, 9th, and 10th stranded; and

 WHEREAS, The deplorable working conditions in New York City's
garment industry were well-known at the time and, in 1909, industry
leaders were met with a massive strike known as the Uprising of the
20,000 led by the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union in which
workers demanded higher wages, safer working conditions, and better
hours; this strike precipitated the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire by
just a year; and

 WHEREAS, Recent research has determined the names and ages of the
handful of previously unidentified victims; and

 WHEREAS, The complete list now includes: Lizzie Adler (24 years
old), Anna Altman (16), Annina Ardito (25), Rose Bassino (31, sister of
Catherine Giannattasio), Vincenza Benanti (22), Yetta Berger (18), Essie
Bernstein (19), Jacob Bernstein (38), Morris Bernstein (19), Gussie
Bierman (22), Vincenza Biliota (16), Abraham Binowitz (30), Rosie Bren-
man (23, sister of Sarah Brenman), Sarah Brenman (17), Ida Brodsky (15),
Sarah Brodsky (21), Ada Brooks (18), Laura Brunetti