In an era of increasing unionization, The Triangle Fire, handwriting written by Leon Stein, describes one of the worst industrial disasters in the nation's history that ended up killing 146 of the 500 Triangle Shirtwaist Company employees, who were immigrant workers. These immigrants came to the United States with their families in search of a better life. Instead they found themselves working long hours only to receive low wages along with horrendous working circumstances with very little freedom. This exciting event occurred in New York in the late afternoon of March 25, 1911. The tendentious Max Blank and Isaac Harris owned the first three floors of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in the Asch Building. Most of the workers were Italian and European Jewish immigrants. It was almost closing time for the young workers until that quiet afternoon quickly turned into a scary time for everyone. At that moment, people's lives were turned upside down forever when a fire broke out on the eighth floor of the Asch building. To date, there is no precise cause why the fire broke out. All they know is that people heard an explosion coming from the eighth floor followed by bundles of clothes falling from the sky. People soon noticed that not only had bundles of clothes fallen, but that those 'bundles of clothes' were actually some young workers jumping and falling from the window seals. The outbreak of the fire was horrible, women fell from the ceiling while others took their lives by jumping out of windows. The workers ran into trouble when they tried to open the doors on the ninth floor of the Washington Place stairway, but the doors appeared to be locked. On the other…half of the paper…the possibility of immigrant workers taking breaks. They also had younger workers at age 14/15, matching child labor to Golden Age child labor. The Asch building also affects hundreds of other industrial areas that have been treated cruelly and unfairly. Many strikes also occurred during the Gilded Age, just as the Women's Dress and Belt Manufacturers Union, Local No. did. 25 of the ILGWU. An example of the golden age would be the first workers' strike, the railway workers' strike of 1877, in which they refused to work due to wages being cut. Hundreds of people died in the railway workers' strike. Another example is the Haymarket riot, where they called for an eight-hour working day and this also resulted in the deaths of hundreds of people. In short, the industrial work of the 19th and 20th centuries was a crucial moment in history. There were many strikes, deaths, and underpaid immigrants.