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WASHINGTON, May 7 Rebuffing Republican leaders, the Senate today defeated, 44 to 43, a proposal to write a limitation on industry-wide collective bargaining into pending labor disputen legslaton.

It was a stinging setback for Senator Taft (Ohio), chairman of the Senate's GOP policy committee and the labor committee. Taft had predicted passage of the amendment by a "comfortable margin."

When Senator Morse (R-Ore) declared that the amendment would "strike at the very heart of democratic trends in organized labor" and "set responsible trade unions back 20 years," Taft argued that there "is no democracy" in some large unions.

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