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A Wild, Inexplicable Mass Murder

JL;DR SUMMARY The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911 is poignantly captured in this article originally from the Forverts, highlighting the criminal negligence leading to the tragedy that claimed 144 lives. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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ForvertsNew York CityFireTriangle Shirtwaist FactoryMass MurderLabor ConditionsNegligenceWorker Safety1911Locked Doors

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New York, United States
"The bosses of the Triangle Waist Company, with permission of the City Board, led several hundred young women to the three highest floors of a dangerous building and burned and murdered them there."
Newark, New Jersey, United States
"And the grand jury will surely determine the same fact that the grand jury found after the terrible Newark fire that no one is guilty."

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