The industrialist Dreissiger barely escapes with his family after Becker is freed from police custody and leads an angry mob against his house.
One character in this play fires the tutor Weinhold for disagreeing with him and plays a game of whist with Pastor Kittelhaus. Another character is forced to kill his pet dog for food but it unable to keep it down, having not eaten meat for two years. A policeman warns against the singing of a song taught to the central characters of this play by the soldier Moritz Jaeger. This play is subtitled "a drama of the forties" and ends as the elderly Hilse is killed by a stray bullet. The industrialist Dreissiger barely escapes with his family after Becker is freed from police custody and leads an angry mob against his house. For 10 points, name this dramatization of a Silesian wage riot of the title workers, a work of Gerhardt Hauptmann.
One character in this play fires the tutor Weinhold for disagreeing with him and plays a game of whist with Pastor Kittelhaus.
The {Weavers} [or {Die Weber}]