New Deal Network

Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute

This website contains the statement: for many New Dealers, March 25, 1911 was, as Secretary of Labor Francis Perkins recalled,” the day the New Deal began.” Throughout the 1930s, artists, labor leaders, and reformers continued to look to the tragedy as a touchstone for the continuing need to agitate for legislation concerning work conditions and to press for the rights of all workers. You will find a photograph of the mural painted by Ernest Fiene in the auditorium of the High School of Fashion and Industry depicting the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire and the workers’ rights movement, as well as many photographs of the fire and its aftermath.

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