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PLATERS THREATEN STRIKE Hawthorne Horseshoers Demand Private Plater Be Barred From Working at Track. In an effort to avert a strike of fifteen platers or horseshoers at Hawthorne a committee of horsemen was to confer with representatives of the platers today. The blacksmiths threaten to strike unless a private plater employed by one of the larger stables on the grounds is barred from plying his profession at Hawthorne it was learned Thursday. At the suggestion of members of the racing commission, C. W. Hay, general manager of Hawthorne, named B. B. Williams, Roscoe Goose, G. R. Bryson, Emil Denemark and D. E. Stewart as a committee to meet with representatives of the platers, and the two groups were reported as ready to get together. A strike of the blacksmiths would handicap horsemen to such a degree that many of the stables, including a number of the largei ones, could not operate, it was pointed out.
