Perhaps the most stunning thing that publications used to persuade people was Leon Stein’s interview with Mary Domsky-Abrams. She was one of the survivors who worked on the ninth floor as a blouse operator. On the day of the fire, she says that a girl asked the manager why there wasn’t any water in the buckets and told him that if there were a fire, there would be nothing to put it out with. He was infuriated and responded with “If you’ll burn, there’ll be something to put out the fire.” Domsky-Abrams said that she and her coworker, Minnie Bornstein, went to the ladies’ room to change their dresses a few minutes before closing time like they usually did. The manager came over to them and told them to get back to their machines because there was still more work to be done, and if they didn’t, they shouldn’t…show more content… The ideological shift in America accounts for this phenomenon. The Presidential Election of 1912 signified the end of conservatism when Democrat Woodrow Wilson was elected into office. The Senate and House of Representatives also held a Democrat majority, which explains why many Progressive laws and the Nineteenth Amendment were able to be created. One of the major reasons that the government became more progressive was because America became more progressive as a result of the fire. The Triangle fire had successfully been able to implement reform and change America, starting in New York City. “[Tammany] decided that the Triangle was the right vehicle, the perfect moment, to recast New York’s Democratic Party. Murphy had the power now and the opportunity to do something dramatic.” With the lawmakers now on the same page as the strikers and reformers, things could begin to happen. “Governor Dix signed a law
