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A play written in the late 19th century. Set among Silesian weavers in the 1840s, it portrays crushing poverty, factory exploitation, and the mounting pressure toward collective defiance. The drama contrasts the hard-nosed mill owner Dreisziger and his agent Pfeifer with weavers like Baumert, Bäcker, Reimann, Heiber, and Ansorge, along with their families. The opening of the play unfolds in Dreisziger’s cloth-receiving room,