Obituaries; Daniel J. Cummings; born in Covington in 1867, came up with Hemingray and worked until his job was replaced by machines in 1921

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DANIEL J. CUMMINGS was born in Covington, Kentucky, in 1867. At a tender age, he accepted employment with the Hemingray Glass Company of Covington and there learned the art of a glass worker. Subsequently the company moved to Muncie, Indiana, and Brother Cummings went along. He remained in the employ of this company until 1921 when, like all other skilled glass workers employed in making insulators, he was displaced by an automatic machine. From that time on he was employed at the Warner Gear Works of Muncie until he was taken ill, which illness five weeks later brought, his earthly career to an end.

Brother Cummings was one of those honest, straight-forward, unassuming, loyal members of the trade union movement who greatly assisted in making the American Flint Glass Workers' Union the staunch organization that it is. He was never very active in formulating policies nor did he criticise those who took an active part in so doing, but there was one thing certain that once the majority agreed upon any course of procedure they always knew they would have the support of Brother Cummings.

Brother Cummings was very much interested in the affairs of the American Flint Glass Workers' Union, and there are few, if any, who manifested a keener interest in our official journal — "The American Flint." He leaves behind him to mourn his loss a hoat of friends who join with the writer in expressing their sympathy to his devoted wife. The world is better because brother Daniel J. Cummings lived the life he did.

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