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Show IPRQUD OF WORK OF ; HOC ISlii YARD President of Corporation Continues Testimony Before Be-fore Senate Committee. WASHINGTON', March 0. Dwiht P. Kobiimon, proMiilent of the Aineri-;i-un liiteriiutioiiitl Shipbuilding rurjxira-i rurjxira-i t ion, continuing his testimony today jbofure, Ihn M-inito in ordination commit-I commit-I too, declared he wan proud of the work ' aoooiiipliihod in building tho murh criti.ied Hug Island shipyard and lagaiu defended tho high tialuriea paid ! the urd ofl i.-erii. Hubiiisiin naid that when tho Hog ! Island plant was started ho had told tho ! shipping board representatives, that, ! while the yard was under construction, thn work would look like "an organ-' organ-' i.ed riot" and that chaos would continue con-tinue until tho actual work of hip-1 hip-1 building began. j .Suggestion of committee members j J that tho salaries of the yard officers be reduced were vipironly opposed by i the witness, who said such action would "reduce the spirit and morale, of the ! men and verv materially interfere with the work, wliirh," he uilded, "was now j going at U.p (.peed. Senator Nelson of Minnesota, Tie- publican, said he could not n-e how i the reducing of the ,alnrv of the VJ.'y 1 ciio a vcir general manager could at-t at-t feet mi'. liaiii. s at tho plant receiving I I nnd rj.'. a dnv. I Mr. Hobin-uri mid mlariei paid of-! of-! floors of other yards are just as high and in seine instances higher than ! those aid at Hog Island. The committee com-mittee nlreadv has ai.ked the rhipjiing board for a report on mlnrie, of yard 'cflirials at Newport News, Quincy, i Mass., lialliinore aud other Atlantic coast points. George J. Baldwin, chairman of the board of the American International corporation, followed Mr. Robinson and 'admitted that the corporation had sent telegrams to Washington newspaper (Correspondents urging them to attend the hearing ve-terdav. Ho added that the corporation now is engaged in no I propaganda work further thnn receiv-ir.g receiv-ir.g newspaier men and magazine ' writers at the Hog Island yard. j Testimony of other ot finals of the Vuoriean International will not be heard until next week, the romniitto announced todnv, hut in tho meantime : other phases of the hippinu subject ' will be taken up. |