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Continue Hearings in Turfs New York Labor Board Case NEW YORK, N. Y., June 15.— State Labor Relations Board hearings in the unfair labor practices case against 179 thoroughbred horsemen went into their third day today and there was still no sign of a conclusion to a case that has perplexed the racing world and the state labor agencies since August, 1947. Trial examiner Robert Lawler again heard testimony concerning the machinery for voting set up by field officers of the board in the election held at Belmont, Jamaica and Aqueduct in September, 47. This was the election in which grooms and exercise boys chose Local 804 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters as their bargaining agent. Lists of voters were offered in evidence, and attorney Edward Scully of the firm of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam and Roberts called the trial examiners attention to several errors in the field officers system of checking men who had voted. It appeared that certain names were included in the lists that did not belong there, and these names had been checked as if they had voted. The afternoon session was marked by prolonged "wrangling between the attorney for the board. Murray I. Laskey, and Scully, both of whom were reprimanded by trial examiner Lawler. The major question at issue concerned the presence of Francis Bellhouses name on the list, and whether he had been permitted to vote or not. Field officer Patterson, in charge of the voting, could not remember whether Bellhouse had been challenged, and there was a difference of opinion concerning the interpretation of the pencilled notation following his name. "
