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Show Labor Leader I Resigns From . I Peace Council I Milton Snelllng In Letter Sharply Ar- flBl ralgns Some of the Men In flflj Movement Bflfl Washington, Aug. 10. Tho reslg- flflf notion of Milton Snelllng of Washing- flBl ton, vice president of the Intcrnatlon- flflj ,nt Union of Steam and Operating l.'n- Bfl glneers, from tho ofllco of first vlco flflf president of labor's, national pcaco HBl council was announced todny at tho flflf headquarters of tho American Fcdcra- HH tlon Labor. flflj Following closely tho clash between flflf Rcprcscntattvo Buchanan nnd tho flHfl Whito Hotiso because President W1I- HBl son did not sco a delegation from tho HBl pcaco council nnd repeated statement HBl of Samuel Gompers that tho council HBl had no connection with tho American HHJ Federation of Labor, Suclllng'a res- HBl Ignotlon added a now chapter to a so- flflf rles of events which stirred organized HBl labor circles. HJ SnoMlng's letter of resignation was flfll addressed to Buchanan as president flflf nf thn nonrn council. "When I discovered," Snelllng HBf wilte, "persons participating In tho fl j meeting who havo boon hanging on H tho financing of tho lnbor movement H I for their personal aggrandizement, B men who have been dlscnrdcd, ono H who Is expelled from tho Intornntlon- fl nl union of his trade nnd others nov- H er having been members of nny or- H gnnlrntlon of labor, I am free to say H that It caused mo considerable cha- H grin, disappointment nnd disgust." M Snelllng says ho was unab'o to find H who was to finance labor's national H penco council nnd when Buchanan M was questioned, ho replied: fl "This thing Is big enough bo that M I do not enro whero tho money comes fl from to llnanco it." H Snelllng then says that Jacob O. M I Taylor, tho delcgato from Rast Or- M Jnngo, N. J., when asked, '"What af- M ter all, does this council want to do?" M replied: fl "We want to stop thn exportation M of munitions to tho allies. You see, H Germany can manufacture all tho mil- H nltlons sho wants." fl "I can no longer permit," Snelllng's H letter concludes, "my pnmo to ho ns- H Boclatcd with an association when tho H action of somo of ltu men lustiflcs sits- fl piclon nnd condemnation because of B I their wrong doings. I should add that M j for you, personally nnd snvernl of M ' tho gentlemen who participated In M , the conference, I cntertnln great ro- M spect, even though I feel that a mis- M taken course has been, pursued." M |
