Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1894 — LOAN THEIR EMPLOYER $50,000. [ARTICLE]

LOAN THEIR EMPLOYER $50,000.

A Glaw-Worker*’ Aa'oclatloa Doe* an Unusual Thing. Friday night, at a meeting of Local Assembly 303, Window-Glass-Workers’ Association, at .Pittsburgh the application ol James A. Chambers fora loan of 150,0(C was finally passed upon and approved, and the money w.ll be advanced when the attorney of the association passes on the security offered. This is the first case, probably. In the world whore a labor union has been cd ed upon to loan money to an i employer Mr Chambers’ application has I been in since early in November, and on 1 the securing of the money depended the continuation of the Chambers plant at Kingston. A religious wave has struck Edinburg and alt the churches are holding protracted meetings.