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一 |     12月18日，中国有色矿业集团有限公司党委书记、董事长文岗率队到抚顺红透山矿业有限公司进行调研。    NEW YORK -- If people really looked for history at the New York City building where the Triangle Shirtwaist factory once existed, they could find it. There are plaques pointing out that it was the site of a horrific fire in 1911 that became a catalyst in the American labor movement's fight for workplace safety protections.But for some, a few words on a wall aren't nearly enough to honor the fire's 146 victims.So after years of effort, the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition on Wednesday is dedicating a new memorial that has no chance of being overlooked.A giant steel ribbon with the names of those who died in the disaster, predominantly women and girls, has been installed running horizontally from one corner of the building. Underneath it, a reflective panel shows the stenciled names as well as quotes from people who were there, describing the mayhem. In the coming weeks, a vertical steel column will be added to the corner to span almost the entire height of the building, a reference to how high up the victims were stuck.It’s the story of desperate immigrant women, mostly Jewish and Italian, who were trapped by a door that was locked because there were no workplace safety rules that said it couldn’t be. Some jumped to their deaths from the windows to avoid the flames.“What they will see is a memorial that tries to build into the object itself the history of the fire, a history of working women, a history of Italians and Jews, a history of tragedy, but then also a history of change,” said Mary Anne Trasciatti, a Hofstra University professor and president of the coalition.The victims were close to the end of their working day on March 25, 1911, when a fire started on the eighth floor of the clothing factory, which took up the top floors of a building now owned by New York University.Frantic workers tried to get out as the flames spread to the ninth and 10th floors, some scrambling to get into an elevator, others heading for the roof. But others who tried to get past a door to escape found it locked, trapping them inside. At a trial of the factory’s owners afterward, some said the door had been kept locked on purpose, over theft concerns.Firefighters responded quickly. But their ladders were too short to get to the topmost floors.Horrified witnesses in the crowd watched as workers leapt from the windows. Among those bystanders was the late Frances Perkins, already an anti-poverty advocate trying to change workplace conditions, and who became even more dedicated after what she saw that day.“It really started her in her push for ‘we have to treat workers better,’” said Ileen DeVault, professor of labor history at Cornell University.Some of her words recollecting the day are part of the memorial, running along the reflective panel. “Every one of them was killed, everybody who jumped was killed.”Perkins would be part of a state commission that put a series of safety rules in place in New York that were emulated elsewhere, and later became an integral part of President Franklin Roosevelt’s cabinet as his secretary of labor. She pushed for policies like minimum wage, workers compensation, and old age pensions.One of the names on the memorial will be that of Rosie Weiner, who died in the blaze, but whose sister and fellow factory worker, Katie Weiner, made it out alive.Later, Weiner would recount how she grabbed an elevator cable to make her escape. Today, her great-niece, Suzanne Pred Bass, is on the board of the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition. Growing up, Bass knew her great-aunt had lived through the fire, but it wasn’t until years later that she heard about Rosie.Bass’ mother remembered accompanying her mother as a small child to the pier where the victims' bodies were taken after the fire.“She never forgot that, she was 4 years old and I can only imagine how how scary and awful,” Bass said.Memorial designers Richard Joon Yoo and Uri Wegman wanted to find a way for modern-day people to connect with the fire and its legacy, they said. The public was invited a few years ago to contribute pieces of fabric that were joined together in a 300-foot (91-meter) “Collective Ribbon." That ribbon’s design was then etched onto the memorial steel that rises up toward the top of the building.It was important to make that connection between past and present because issues of labor, workplace protections, and how workers are treated are still far from settled in the country and the world, Yoo and Wegman said.“Everything that it talks about with women workers, immigration, labor, it’s these touch points that just keep on flaring up over and over and over again,” Yoo said, pointing out that industrial disasters, at garment factories and elsewhere, still happen around the globe.The two came up with the design for the memorial about a decade ago. It is coming to fruition, with a capital budget of about $3 million, during a year of labor activism in some U.S. industries, with strikes by auto workers, hospital staff, film and television writers and screen actors.It just shows that the Triangle Shirtwaist fire still has lessons to impart, Bass said.“We forget a tragedy like this at our own peril,” she said. “We have the same issues, immigrant issues, safe working condition issues, abuse of women in the workplace issues. It’s not like any of these issues are all fixed."。市委书记高键会见了文岗一行，双方就进一步深化合作，推动驻抚企业高质量发展深入交流。         　　高键代表市委、市政府对文岗一行表示诚挚欢迎，对中国有色矿业集团有限公司给予抚顺的大力支持表示衷心感谢。他说，抚顺还拥有丰富的矿产资源，铜、锌等资源比较丰富，成矿地质条件较好。

二 | 当前，抚顺正在全力实施全面振兴新突破三年行动，推动传统产业向高端化、智能化、绿色化方向转型升级。希望中国有色集团加快推进驻抚企业改造升级，加大技术改造与设备更新力度，让老企业焕发新活力。持续深化央地合作发展，找准合作的切入点和对接点，不断扩大在抚投资力度。抚顺红透山矿业有限公司要加快推进增储上产工作，进一步挖掘潜力、扩大产能、延伸产业链，统筹好发展和安全，实现资源开采、生态保护、安全生产协调共进，助推抚顺全面振兴新突破三年行动取得扎实成效。

三 |          　　文岗对抚顺市委、市政府长期以来对企业发展的关心和支持表示感谢。他说，抚顺产业基础良好，矿产资源丰富，区位优势明显，交通条件便利，具备实现高质量发展的诸多有利条件。特别是实施全面振兴新突破三年行动以来，全市各方面工作变化很大、成效显著。中国有色集团将进一步加强与抚顺市沟通对接，积极履行央企责任，立足主业、发挥优势，持续加大投资力度，巩固合作成果，拓宽合作领域，为抚顺经济社会高质量发展贡献更多力量。         　　市直相关部门、清原满族自治县有关负责同志参加。                    责任编辑：李丹。

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