Triangle Shirtwaist
Across
- 2. Most workers in the factory were young __ women.
- 5. Another issue that strikers fought for.
- 8. The tragedy brought widespread attention to the dangerous __ conditions of factories
- 10. There were two stairways down to the __.
- 11. Blanck and Harris deliberately torched their workplaces before business hours in order to collect on the large __ policies they purchased
- 12. High levels of __in the city government generally ensured that no useful precautions were taken to prevent fires.
- 14. The __ was so narrow that it would have taken hours for all the workers to use it.
- 16. Employees were paid a mere __ dollars a week
- 18. Most of the victims died as a result of __ safety features.
- 19. The other door to escape only opened __.
Down
- 1. On March 25, 1911, the __ factory in New York City burned.
- 3. Nearly all the workers were teenaged girls who did not speak English and worked __ hours a day, every day.
- 4. The was located in the top three floors of the ___ Building.
- 6. One of the issues that strikers fought for.
- 7. Name of the industry that fire victims worked in.
- 9. The deaths were largely __.
- 10. The owners refused to install __ systems and take other safety measures
- 13. One of the doors to escape was locked from the __ to prevent stealing.
- 15. Women worked in a cramped space at lines of __ machines.
- 17. Abbreviation of group that went on strike in 1909.