“Some people say the Triangle fire created the labor movement, but that is not true. What the Triangle did was to inspire MORE working people to fight for their rights.”
~Mary Anne Trasciatti
(President of th Remember The Triangle Fire Collation)
A massive funeral of 35,000 people to commemorate the victims of the fire (right).
[We Mourn Our Loss, 1911]
[Joe DeFillipo. Bread and Roses]
This is a excerpt of a song written by Joe Defillipo called “Bread and Roses” written to commemorate the strike.
[The Bread and Roses Strike, New England Historical Society, 1912]
The immigrant women working at textile mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts were inspired by the Triangle Fire to fight for their rights in 1912. I included this strike because similar to the employees at the Triangle Factory, the workers at these textile mills were mainly immigrant workers. Due to an extended work week and a cut in pay, 25,000 workers mostly young. The Industrial Workers of the World and other organizations jumped in to help, and eventually, in mid-March, the mill owners gave in.
"The "Bread & Roses" Strike, hailed as the first successful multi-ethnic strike."
(U.S. History Labor Timeline)