describe the cause of silesian weavers uprising . comment on the view point of the journalist?
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2. Desperate need of ion is taken as advantage by the contractor
3. Contractor provide them work and raw material but drastically redue their payments
4. So on 4 June at 2pm a crowd of Weaver's come out from their home and marched to the house of the contractors
5 there they were treated with science and threat so following this agriup of workers enter into the house and broke it window pane furniture etc another group enter into store house and plundered the supply hence contractor forced to flew
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In 1845, weavers of Silesia had led a revolt against contractors who supplied them raw materials. They gave them order for finished textiles but drastically reduced their payments.
1. The workers were living in extreme poverty and misery.
2. The desperate need for has been taken advantage of by the contractors to reduce the prices of the goods they order.
3. On 4 June at 2 P.M. a large crowd of weavers emerged from their homes and marched in pairs up to the mansion of their contractor demanding higher wages.
4. They were treated with scorn and threats alternately.
5. A group of weavers entered in to a house of a contractor. They smashed the window panes, furniture and porcelain. They entered the storehouse and tore to shreds the supplies of cloth.
6. The contractor fled away with his family to a neighboring village and came back after 24 hours with army.