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1844 - Summer Silesean Weavers Revolt Silesean weavers acted in a strange and frightening fashion this summer. Two thousand of them grouped together and destroyed the houses of rich manufactures, after that they continued to the factories where they worked and burned it to the ground. Then, they moved into the town of Peterswaldau and were about to destroy the houses in the rich quarter when the local garrison arrived and dispersed the rabble. A investigation has shown that the living conditions of the weavers were very bad, because of insufficient wages. The King, shocked by the events opened his own purse generously and gave to the starving weavers. A journalist named Karl Marx wrote a article claiming that this was the start of a proletarian revolution, but, as a journalist of the radical left wing Rheinische Zeitung, he did not turn very many heads with his article. |
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