Bristlers
(pejorative, slang, historical) A group of German refugees with Marxist leanings in 1849 who scattered to Switzerland, France and England.
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(pejorative, slang, historical) A group of German refugees with Marxist leanings in 1849 who scattered to Switzerland, France and England.
The manufacturers agreed not to maintain any relations with the Bristlers' Trade Union, and they also agreed to introduce piecework wages where such wages did not exist, and to reduce the scale of piece-work where they did exist.
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