Albert Hughes dead, was former employee of Bell Pottery

ALBERT S. HUGHES

Albert S. Hughes, aged fifty-one years, one of the founders of the National Brotherhood of Operative Potters, and for nearly fiurteen years its president, was found dead in his bead at his home in East Liverpool, O., last Monday morning by his son. He had been dead about an hour when found. Mr, Hughes was born in Wheeling, W. va., and lived there many years. He went to East Liverpool over thirty years ago; and has since made his home there. He was greatly admired by all pottery manufacturers for his fairness in dealing with all differences which arose from time to time between manufacturers and workers. There was never a strike in the domestic pottery business as long as Mr. Hughes was at the head of the organization. Following his retirement from the Brotherhood, he went to the Bell Pottery Co.'s plant at Findlay, O., and left there when that firm sold out to an electric porcelain concern. He returned to East Liverpool and for several years following was chief clerk in the City Water Department offices.