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. , I ; i No Change in Strike Situation at Belmont Blacksmiths Stopped by Picket Lines in Jurisdictional Dispute BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y., May 25. — A note of violence was injected into the Belmont Park strike situation last evening when trainer W. O. Hicks, who had brought Mrs. Louis Lazares Gallant Bull to Belmont from Aqueduct, was the target for a rock that was thrown through his car as he was leaving the track. Hicks was unharmed and obtained the license number of the car from which the missile was thrown, planning to prosecute. A report that the operators of the photo-chart camera had been slapped around by some one representing the Thoroughbred Photo Service, whose photographers are on strike along with the teamsters, admission ticket sellers and bartenders, proved unfounded. However, there were persistent reports that the electrical equipment operating the "tote" machines and lighting plant was in danger of sabotage over the week-end. This could not be confirmed. Meanwhile, the blacksmiths, while expressing themselves as opposing the jurisdictional strike, were stopped by the picket lines and did not enter the track in working clothes. Dave Walters, representing the blacksmiths, said yesterday that his group wanted no part of the strike, but as members of an A. F. of L. union they were unable to pass a picket line for purposes of work. Walters also implied that the case of trainer Stanley Lipiec, who was barred by the farriers for plating his own horses during a blacksmiths strike in Florida, was up for reconsideration at the first meeting of the union officials. Walters also contra-dicated repeated reports that the blacksmiths union was not admitting apprentices. Walters asked: "Do you know of any young man who wants to do hard work today? If you do he can become an apprentice plater today." Meanwhile the races were conducted in orderly fashion with adequate fields in all events and the only sufferers being the Stevens Catering Company, the drinkers of hard liquor and the bartenders, who are beginning to feel the lack of wages,
