New-York tribune., 1922-06-20
Flynn, Called
I'm Wall Street
Disaster Suit
Ex.Sccrct Service Chief En-
oncraicG Sailors Arrested
ai Rio de Janciro Charged
With knowledge of Crime
Strikes at Sea Involved
Attorneys for Ship Owners
Press Charge of Mutiny
Against Complainants

william :. Flynn. former chief o.
the United states Sccrc, Service. will
be subpocnacd to-day before Justice
yalcnie and jury In Part |. City
Court. as witness IN n $4,000 dam
age suit brought by Philip Bender
snilor against tho United States Ship
ping Board Emergency Fleet Corpora
tion and tho Northern Steamship
Company.
Bender is ono Of five sailors arrest
ed in February at Rio do Janeiro. on
charges Of mutiny on tho high seas.
At the time Of the arrests South
American newspapers printed stories
alleging that Bender and tho other
sailors were of Bolshcvist tendencies
and had knowledge - the Wall Street
bomb explosion. The other sail
ors have brought damage suits idcn;i-
cal with that Of Bender, which charge
false arrest and Imprisonment Be
sides Bender the sailors are Hans
Raudin, Leonard Kudrnzef. Hendrick
Siphon md Rudolph Dorsch.
Chief Flynn investigated the ru-
mors regarding the sailors and their
reported knowledge OF the Wall Street
explosion and found them without
foundation. Bender and tho others
were cxoneratcd in government reports
By Flynn. il is said. They were also
discharged by United States com.
missioner az New Orleans, who advised
the sailors to bring suit.
Granted Citizenship
4 further clean bill is said 10 have
been given Bender when he was gwen
his final United States citizenship pa
pcrs recently. at which time proof was
unlimited that be had been cleared OF
the mutiny charge and that no direct
charge IN connection with tho Wal.
Street explosion ever had been hlcc
against him anywhere.
Involved ia the suit. henring. o.
which was begun yesterday, there Is a
modern labor question u tire richt oi
r. scamen's union 60 strikc or &c n!gA
seas.
II was evident a, the hearing yester..
dav that Attorney James a. Hatch, Oh
80 Wall Street; repr, scnting the Nofi"-
ern Steamship Company. is attempting
70 establish that an actual nuiiny was
accomplished BY the NNr s"'tefs 90.
hoard the company liner City OF
Alton. Bender. Tho iirst witness IN the
case. admitted on cross-examinaiioh
that tho five sailors had quit work ioF
three DAYS. involving practically the
whole deck crew. on direct eNaminA-
lion. conducted by Attorney Silas Is.
AxteU. however. he insisted that OIL held
ceased labor only because they we're H.
due 20 a failure of the water cooiet
avs,cm. and TINT they had written n
letter 10 the United States Consul al
Rio do janciro.
Oricrcd In Irons
Tho consul came aboard the snip, ae-
companied by Cartain G. a. Burke. ac-
cording 10 the TESTIMONY OF benaoi'
and the former is quoted by benacr a.
Throw those men In irons"
"Wo were taken OF tho snip tesu'
Gcd Render. under guard Of fifteen
soldiers. and were thrown ~ daTh'
underground dungeon where there was
no sanitation, md where VIC we're o'cr-
run bv rats and vcfmin.' Bender alio
testified that the prisoners were krp'
,n double irons for several days on
the TIN north 70 Now Orleans. On
ctor,- examination BE- admitted that the
ship's officers had taken the earliest
opportunity % repair the water cool
l ING system Render also admitted ne
war representing labor union aboard
Tho fhip.