PBS 9 p.m....American Experience is doing a telling of the fire of

[monmouth]

1911 at the Triangle Company in New York. Very good timing with all of the union events happening...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. And the Republicans want to eliminate all funding for PBS.

[monmouth]

3. I can do without many things but PBS is not one of them...n/t

[Dennis Donovan]

2. Thanks for the heads up!

:thumbsup:

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. It's worth re-watching

I intend to do just that. Thanks.

[Bozita]

5. 1991: 25 dead when workers cannot escape fire - Exits locked to prevent thefts of chicken parts

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/15/us/meat-plant-owner-pleads-guilty-in-a-blaze-that-killed-25-people.html

Meat-Plant Owner Pleads Guilty In a Blaze That Killed 25 People
Published: September 15, 1992


ROCKINGHAM, N.C., Sept. 14 — The owner of a chicken processing plant where 25 people died in a fire last year pleaded guilty today and was sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison.

In a surprise plea agreement, the owner of Imperial Food Products Inc., Emmett J. Roe, admitted 25 counts of involuntary manslaughter. As part of the agreement, the state dropped charges against two managers at the plant, James N. Hair and Brad M. Roe, the owner's son.

The agreement averted a criminal trial in one of the nation's worst industrial accidents.

Twenty-four workers at the plant, which cooked chicken for fast-food chains, and a delivery man died Sept. 3, 1991, after hydraulic fluid from a conveyor belt under repair sprayed over a gas-fired chicken fryer at the company's plant in Hamlet, N.C. A fireball filled the plant with dense, toxic smoke. Fifty-six workers were injured, and more than 150 others were left without jobs because the plant closed. No Sprinklers or Alarm

State officials have said that the plant, the leading employer in Hamlet, 60 miles southwest of Fayetteville, had no fire alarm or sprinkler system and that its exits were unmarked and doors were locked when the fire occurred. North Carolina's occupational-safety agency said a shortage of inspectors and inadequate resources had prevented the state from inspecting Imperial Food in the 11 years the company has operated.

After the fire, the state fined the company, whose headquarters is in Cummings, Ga., $808,150, the largest such fine the state had ever levied.

more...


For a lot more on the Triangle Shirtwaist and Hamlet chicken processing plant fires, take a look at an old DU thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x256399#257407

[malaise]

10. The thing about that archived link is that

they saw what was coming re the RW attacks on unions.

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. Meanwhile, Scott Walker orders windows welded shut in Wisconsin.

Great timing.

[jtrockville]

7. Yeah, no kidding.

[Raine]

8. THANKS for this reminder

I knew they were having it this week but I wasn't sure when it was on. THANKS! :hi:

[malaise]

9. Thanks for the headsup n/t

[ThatsMyBarack]

11. I wrote a paper about this in college.

What an incredible waste of so many lives!

[kittykitty]

12. Very timely! Thanks for the reminder