Today in Labor History

November 26 -- SOURCE: Union Communications Services, Inc.

Six young women burn to death and 19 more die when they leap from the fourth-story windows of a blazing factory in Newark, N.J. The floors and stairs were wooden; the only door from which the women could flee was locked - 1910

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Today in #LaborHistory: Nov 26, 1910 -via- 'Rip and Ron'

Twenty six, mostly young women, died in a fire in a four-story "factory" building in Newark, NJ. Floors and staircases were made of wood; the building housed several businesses. The door to the fourth floor was locked behind the workers - many perished jumping from the flames.

"This is the site where, four months before the Triangle fire, on Saturday, Nov. 26, 1910, another sweatshop burst into flames, killing more than two dozen women and girls." - from http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/24/nyregion/24towns.html?_r=0
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" He was shown the bodies in the Morgue, but was uncertain about them. Finally his youngest daughter was sent for and finally identified positively the bodies of all three of her sisters. They were DORA, 26; TILLIE, 20; and, MINNIE, 18." - from http://www3.gendisasters.com/new-jersey/17199/newark-nj-factory-fire-disaster-nov-1910?page=0%2C1

"The building was clear from other buildings on all four sides; there was a fire-engine across the street, and a truck and ladder around the corner. Yet six girls were burned to death, and nineteen died as a result of leaping to the pavement from the fourth-story windows." - from http://www.oldnewark.com/histories/factoryfire01.htm