The garment workers union grew after triangle shirtwaist factory fire because consumers forced businesses by way of boycotting non union foods. For example, APEX.
Triangle shirtwaist factory was found in New York and it was in ninth, tenth, and eleventh floors, which caught fire during evening hours. people could raise alarm but nobody could rescue them.
Many of them got burned and others inhaled carbon dioxide. Immigrants women were the ones who were employed in the factory, where many people lost their lives.
There was a coalition which was formed so as to organize churches, schools, private institutions, and fire houses to donate money to cater for the burials and for the family of the departed ones.