“A vote is a fire escape.” Alice Paul had said this while her and her partner Burns visited the women working in the factory to try and convince them to join their protesting. Later the deadliest workplace accident in NYC happened. In March of 1911, The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire broke out. With no fire escape their was 146 people dead. It could have been prevented by making more fire escapes, having windows, less occupancy, the list goes on... Since this was such tragic …show more content…
The War Measures Act was a federal statute adopted by Parliament in 1914, after the outbreak of the WWI. It gave broad power to the nurses for collectecting safety supplies to take cares of the kids, and maintain security/order during war or insurrection. Nurses managing families, men’s jobs, finances, and patriotism was put all before the Congress. Congress decide on the suffrage issue. We had that ratified granting made the lives of women and society better from their education, jobs, salary, medical field, politics, and