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Hellraisers Journal – Thursday April 6, 1911
New York, New York – “The Sacrifice” by Irwin Tucker and Gordon Nye
From The New York Call of April 5, 1911:
[Fire Trap Survey-Send to Committee of Five, care of W. T. U. L.:]
From the New York Tribune of April 4, 1911:
Philbin Names Committee of Five
Eugene A. Philbin, chairman of the big Mass meeting at the Metropolitan Opera House on Sunday, at which ways and means were discussed to prevent such loss of life in factories as occurred at the Washington Place fire, named a committee of five yesterday to co-operate with other civic committees for the formation of a permanent association for the betterment of fire conditions in this city. Mr. Philbin is chairman of the committee, and the other members are Edward T. Devine, general secretary of the Charity Organization Society; Miss Mary E. Dreier, president of the Women’s Trade Union League; William Jay Schieffelin, Lillian D. Wald, head of the Nurses’ Settlement, and Peter Brady, secretary of the Allied Printing Trades Council, representative of the unions.
[Emphasis and photograph added.]
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SOURCES & IMAGES
The New York Call
(New York, New York)
-Apr 5, 1911
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/the-new-york-call/1911/110405-newyorkcall-v04n095.pdf
New York Tribune
(New York, New York)
-Apr 4, 1911
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1911-04-04/ed-1/seq-1/
IMAGE
Mary Dreier, NY Eve Wld p3, Mar 28, 1911
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030193/1911-03-28/ed-1/seq-3/
See also:
Tag: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
https://weneverforget.org/tag/triangle-shirtwaist-factory-fire/
Hellraisers Journal – Tuesday April 4, 1911
-re Mass Protest Meeting at Metropolitan Opera House, April 2nd
From The New York Times of April 3, 1911:
…The meeting, which lasted from 3 o’clock until 5:20, proved to be more cosmopolitan than harmonious. The men in the upper galleries, instead of applauding the programme brought forward by the leaders to obtain better fire protection laws, reserved their loudest cheers for those who dissented from the programme, on the ground that citizens’ committees were incapable of doing any real good and had always proved a failure.
The outcome of the meeting was the adoption of resolutions by a partial vote calling for the creation of a permanent committee to advocate new legislation and see that there is no official neglect to enforce such laws as now exist.
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Peter Brady, the Brooklyn printer, said that between capitalistic greed and official incompetence he expected the efforts of any citizens’ committee to come to naught, and advocated that the laborers take the law into their own hands and refuse to work wherever conditions were not what they should be.
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[Note: nevertheless, a Resolution to establish a Citizen’s Committee of Five was passed.}
Chairman Philbin said that he would announce the names of the committee called for in the resolution some time this week.
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Song – Mike Stout
“Twenty-eight more who didn’t have to die
On the Altars of Greed it’s just another Sacrifice.”