Clothing Factory Fire Research Paper

Burning Clothing Factory Protesting Workers Locked inside the building!!!

The fire was located on the corner of Greene Street and Washington Place in Manhattan, New York. It happened on March twenty-fifth at 4:40 in the afternoon. Isaac Harris & Max Blanck are to blame people saying an exit was locked by the guards instructed by the owners to do so of 146 people killed. The fire is believed to have to been started by a cigarette during a break or some person who was careless enough to not put out there cigarette or just dropped it on the floor. The workers were locked in supposedly because they were afraid that someone would steal a piece of clothing.
The workers locked inside a burning building could not do anything about it the fire escape fell over and almost no one got out that way they fell and the other exit was blocked by flames the elevator was the only way out of the building. Which was slow and not efficient the windows broke and bodies fell out the windows. When the fire ended the building was burnt to a crisp. Children being worked …show more content…
Factories are putting children for the job of splitting slate from coal with their hands. Their hands are now covered in scratches, soot, and scars that will permanently mark them for the rest of their lives. There were not only breaker boys there were, crop pickers worked in the hot sun for hours and hours, there were canners which would carry heavy items to can than crack oysters and mess up their hands, newsies which would sell papers and get paid half a cent for a paper basically, and there were coal miners which their lungs would be filled with coal dust as they inhale on their clothes respiratory issues will develop with age, accidents could happen and the mines could collapse and kill children. Child labor is continuing to effect children still out an end to these factories using children as tools so they could make profits for