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Belmont Jurisdictional Strike Comes to End Picket Lines Removed After Ten Days at New York Track BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y., June 1. — The jurisdictional strike, which was instigated 10 days ago at Belmont Park by the teamsters and chauffeurs union and which also involved the bartenders, admissions ticket sellers, photographers of the Thorobred Photo Service and for the past two days, the program printers, came to an abrupt end this morning. The pickets were called off at 10:30 a. m., but the programs were printed several hours earlier and came through the picket lines to the track at 7:30 a. m. Neither George D. Widener, president of the Westchester Racing Association or Marshall Cassidj , steward representing The Jockey Club, would elaborate on bare statements that the strike was over. Cassidy did say, however, that "nobody wont." The losers, apart from the various employes who were unpaid during the dispute, were the horsemen stabled at Jamaica and Aqueduct, who were for the most part unable to race their horses at Belmont. Incidentally, a group of horsemen at Jamaica, including Sol Rutchick and Hirsch Jacobs, purchased a private van from Mr. Widener to use in transporting their horses. The labor troubles on the racing front are not entirely settled, as another jurisdictional dispute between the Independent Union of Pari-Mutuel Employes which controls the clerks at the running tracks, and the A. F. of L., which controls the mutuel employes at Roosevelt Raceway, remains unsettled. This merely means that mutuel clerks are unable to work both night and day, and is probably beneficial to their health.
