Triangle Shirtwaist

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