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Show Manufacturers Fail 1 To Increase Wages WASHINGTON, Fob. 18. Failure of manufacturers to Increase wages in keeping with the advance Jn the cost of living "may bo tho weakness of our Industrial structure," according to Roger W. Babson, special agent of the employment servico of the department of labor, whose views gained during a recent trip through the west aro set forth today in an employment service bulletin. Although starting his trip with the idea of educating the workers to the needs of the present situation, Mr. Babson says he "returned with the idea that the manufacturers, especially those in somo localities need fully as much ''missionary work' as do work- l ers'" li |