LABOR SONG OF THE WEEK: Ballad of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Harold Phillips | Published on 3/21/2026
Bev Grant, from “We Were There! Songs of Women's Labor History”
146 workers – almost all young immigrant women — were killed in a fire at New York’s Triangle Shirtwaist Factory on March 25, 1911, a disaster that would launch a national movement for safer working conditions.
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