Frances Perkins and the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

Frances Perkins and the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire A well off Bostonian who had come to New York for a Columbia University advanced education, Frances Perkins (April 10, 1882 - May 14, 1965) was having tea close by on March 25 when she heard the fire motors. She showed up at the area of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire so as to see laborers hopping from the windows above. Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fireâ This scene propelled Perkins to work for change in working conditions, particularly for ladies and kids. She served on the Committee on Safety of the City of New York as official secretary, attempting to improve manufacturing plant conditions. Frances Perkins met Franklin D. Roosevelt in this limit, while he was New York representative, and in 1932, he selected her as Secretary of Labor, the principal lady to be named to a bureau position. Frances Perkins called the day of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire the day the New Deal started.