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No New Developments In Strike at Belmont Picketing of Track Continues In Jurisdictional Dispute BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y., May 23. — The jurisdictional strike of the teamsters, bartenders, admission ticket sellers and some of the electricians at Belmont Park entered its second day with no new developments, though it was reported that the waiters in the clubhouse were holding an election to determine a bargaining agent. The results of this poll are not expected to be known until tomorrow. Local 282 of the Teamsters and Chauffeurs Union, A. F. of L., began to picket Belmont early yesterday morning and today were joined by pickets from Local 814 of the same union. The bartenders are not on the picket line and a goodly number of them were observed in the neighborhood of the track today, waiting for the word to go to work. That word was not forthcoming and the bars inside the park remained closed. Trucks carrying ice and food for the restaurants were stopped at the gates as was the money truck for the mutuel department and cash had to be carried inside the track. There were comparatively few scratches from todays program, nearly all the entries being stabled at Belmont. One appropriate withdrawal was Arrow Stables Picket Line. The consensus among horsemen stabled at Aqueduct and Jamaica was that they would make no immediate attempt to move their horses by private van or to walk them over. Some appeared to fear meeting with violence at the track gates if they attempted to bring horses in on foot after unloading from private vans near the track. Two ambulances were permitted to cross the picket lines but a third was turned back. Track officials indicated that no attempt would be made to obtain an injunction against the A. F. of L. unions which are endeavoring to obtain control of all track employes through the mutuel clerks, admissions men and Stevens employes, all belonging to independent unions which have been certified by the Labor Relations Board. The effect of the strike became more noticeable in the closing races, with six horses being scratched from the seventh race, leaving the same number of starters and the same number were withdrawn from the nightcap, leaving eight to go post-ward. The withdrawals in both cases were horses trained at Aqueduct or Jamaica.
