If you don't want that death to be wasted,

 As you know well, New York was a port where countless immigrants took the first step in fear and excitement in the furnace of the United States. New York is the port where the heroine, who survived the movie "Titanic," finally arrives. In the movie Godfather, Italian little Vito Choleone, who lost all his family to the mafia, also enters the United States through New York. From the skyscrapers in central New York to the garbage dump in the back alleys, those sweeping the bottom of New York, a metropolitan city where the rich and poor were mixed, were naturally novice immigrants who had just crossed the U.S. People who had to be free from the Land of Freedom and throw themselves to work for opportunities in the Land of Opportunity.

March 25, 1911 was Saturday. At the Triangle Shirt Waist Factory in Manhattan, New York, women in their early teens to mid-20s, who were mainly immigrants, were enjoying their work. I finished work at 5 p.m., and I could rest on Sundays. But with about 20 minutes left before the end of the work, smoke suddenly rose from a pile of cloth on the 8th floor. Acting soon turns into a fluttering flame beyond human height. The two co-presidents of the company responded most quickly to the fire. As soon as they saw the fire, they escaped without looking back and calmly came down to the ground without any scratches.

People on the 8th floor, where the fire first broke out, managed to evacuate, and workers on the 10th floor were also notified of the fire through interphones. However, the women working on the 9th floor did not even get the fact that the fire was spreading. They belatedly learned of the fire, but soon encountered a fear beyond fire. The entrance was locked. The business owner locked the door to crack down on "bad-handed" workers.

Is there another scream scarier than the shout "No way out" when the flames come like a tiger? To make matters worse, the fire hose of the fire truck at the time could not reach more than 6 floors. New Yorkers, one of the busiest cities of the 20th century, had to stare blankly at female workers who screamed sadly out of the window and threw themselves away from the flames. The people who managed to escape also collapsed without walking properly. Because familiar faces fell next to them with a scream. Citizens just stomped their feet and watched the factory engulfed in flames. Meanwhile, two girls were spotted wondering if they were 14 years old in people's eyes. The two held hands tightly and prayed. The people below would have been able to hear the prayer even if they couldn't hear it. In less than 30 minutes, 146 people died. Most of them were Polish, Italian, and Jewish immigrants. Moss-like people under a huge pyramid called New York City.

Many workers are said to have not even been identified. Since there was no DNA identification technology like this these days, how could we cover the faces of people who have been tanned? Let's hear the story of a victim's husband on "VOA" (March 30, 2000). The person who testifies is the grandson of the victimized woman. "Grandmother was one of the unidentified people buried in Greenwood Cemetery. Before heading to work, the grandfather went to the dock where the relics of the bodies of unknown identity were, and pieces of clothes and rings of each victim were placed in the shoe box there. About 10 months to a year after the accident, my grandfather finally pointed to a box and said it was his grandmother's."

Imagine how your wife, who left for work with a bright smile, went on the road of never returning and couldn't even check the relics. No matter how sad he was, he couldn't just leave the hungry children unattended, so he had to head to work every morning. However, before going to work, he somehow stopped by the dock and tried to find traces of his wife by looking through the boxes of relics with his eyes. Think of your husband's silent sobbing, squeezing memories of his wife's last day at work and matching each hairpin, button color, and piece of clothing to find traces left by his wife in the world.

A few days ago, my father was heartbroken by a photo where he could feel the feelings of an American husband a hundred years ago. It was a relic photo left by a 19-year-old young man who was hit and killed by a train while working on a subway screen door alone. Looking at various tools, scissors, gloves, magic pens, writing utensils, and chargers, my father could recall how busy and hard the young man was working. In particular, a cup noodle with chopsticks without opening it drew tears from many people. I wonder if he was going to eat cup noodles after finishing his work. Did he plan to stand in a corner of the subway station, cook noodles in hot water from somewhere, eat them up, and move to another site? My father's head is so dizzy that I can't even guess how his parents felt.

In front of such parents, a Seoul Metro official said that he blamed himself. By putting in a "regulation" that doesn't come up with arithmetic calculations. I really don't know how far a person can be foolish. I don't know how far I can be irresponsible. Come to think of it, two business owners who locked the door to prevent theft and killed 146 people during the triangle fire were acquitted.

One more heartbreaking thing. Tens of thousands of female workers participated in a general strike at the sewing plant in New York in 1909, two years before the disaster. As many as 13 weeks of struggle continued, and 339 out of 400 sewing factories formed unions and improved working conditions. The triangle factory was one of the companies that stubbornly refused to compromise. The company's stubbornness eventually killed 146 workers.

A 19-year-old man who died at Guui Station this time also protested in front of Metro headquarters. It is said that he was in a dream of being hired as an official employee at Seoul Metro. However, instead of officially hiring services, the company released a document stating that it would use retirees from its headquarters at its Seoul Metro subsidiary, and they held a picket in protest. A century later, a young Korean man eventually passed away miserably with triangle workers who thought they would bravely step up and fight for a better life.

Triangle factory fires have become a turning point in American history. 100,000 citizens gathered at the funeral of unhappy workers. The consensus that employers should take responsibility for workers' risks and have an appropriate working environment also spread along the crowd. Francis Perkins, a female activist who watched the triangle fire scene and the first American female minister in the future, said this. "That day was the beginning of the New Deal (led by President Franklin Roosevelt, a huge reform policy that changed American society, including relief from unemployment and guaranteeing trade union activities)."

Triangle's sad sacrifice changed history like that. What about us? Can we start "New Deal"? Can we learn a lesson from the sacrifice of a heartbreaking young man? "I will never raise the second child as a responsible child. "My son has a strong sense of responsibility, so he died while doing what he was told." Far from a new deal, we should at least stop "New Kill." Adults shouldn't live like this to make you live a happy life.