Answer:
The
cause of the 'Silesian Weavers' uprising was due to the cheating of the weavers
by the contractors. In 1845, the weavers raised a revolt against the
contractors as the contractors drastically reduced their payments.
The viewpoint of the journalist Wilhelm Wolf for this uprising was-a
large crowd of weavers reached the house of the contractor and demanded higher
wages.
They were not treated well, so a group of the crowd
entered the contractors house forcibly and destroyed the furniture, window
panes and plundered it. The contractor fled with his family to a neighboring village
but did not get shelter. After 24 hours, he returned back with army and eleven
weavers were shot dead. This shows that the viewpoint of the journalist was
based against the weavers and in favour of the contractor. He did not
understand the misery of the weavers properly.
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