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Show MUTINY CHARGE HEARING OPENS - Baltimore, Nov. j w u- s. Commissioner Juki C Cullen said today evidence against 14 seamen of the government-owned freighter Algic "apparently" indicated breach f discipline rather than mutiny. Cullen, presiding at a preliminary hearing, aereed with"defense coun- eel, who said the testimony of the hip's chief officer gave "no evidence evi-dence of mutiny." The sailors were charged with violation of mutiny laws, : Weston Healy, chief officer, said the sailors turned off steam used .for loading cargo, while the ship was in Montevideo, Uruguay. He testified the sailors objected to working with nonunion stevedores: Wilfred T. McQuade, attorney employed em-ployed by the National Maritime union to defend the sailors, asked that Healy's testimony be stricken. Cullen took the request under consideration. con-sideration. The government charged the seamen sea-men with conspiracy to deprive Captain Joseph Gainard, master of the Algic, of his rightful authority In a strike. In reply, the National Maritime i anion said the share1 were part of a "definite plan on the part of government agents to discredit the N M U. and through it, the CIO, In the maritime industry." After the seamen were arrested nd jailed here, the local branch of the N M U passed a resolution asking ask-ing removal of Joseph P. Kennedy, chairman, and Daniel S. Ring, personnel per-sonnel officer, from the maritime - commission. i ne Algic returned here ' last month from a troublous South American voyage. Its log on the three-month trip listed three sit-down sit-down strikes, several desertions, one of its crew killed in a waterfront brawl and another drowned in an attempt to desert. |