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Show NO PEACE INJiiT - More Aen Join the Ranks of Express Drivers New York, Nov. 10. Possibilities of a clah today between state and federal authorities, over express strike complications, intensified interests in all developments of the warfare between be-tween men and companies. A bint of state arbitration was the only peace note sounded. The seizure under Mayor Guynor's authority, of express company wagons driven by unlicensed driver.-., offered an opening which, it Is believed, the companies would speedily take advantage ad-vantage of to bring matters to a head. It was intimated that the process of injunction would be Invoked by them to prevent further seizures. Besides nearly lO.nort drivers of the express companies and delivery concernM. between il,00i and ",000 taxi- cab drivers ar on strike, j Express business Is virtually at a standstilL No discrimination against ' the union is insisted on by the strikers strik-ers and thfi latter declare their ef-; ef-; forts to secure arbitration have been j balked by the refusal of the com-I com-I panles to negotiate wilh them on this ' basid. A general strike of the teamsters team-sters is Imminent, but there still seems to be a disposition to await to-day's to-day's development and possibly those , of tomorrow, before twking steps to-I to-I wurds effecting a general tie up. The first, move to tie up an established estab-lished passenge;- transportation line, since the strike started, occurred thld forenoon when sixty-two chauffeurs chauf-feurs of the Fifth Avenue CohcU company, com-pany, which operates the lino of motor bussea on Fifth Avenue and Rlveraide Drive, went out on strike. Simultaneously there was an import- -ant accession to the strikers' ranks, when 2G0 drivers of one of the big coal companies struck, latcr in the day the whole bus force of tho Fifth Avenuo company, both ooudnctors nnd chauffeurs, to the number ot 200, had gone on strike. John Dawson and Michael Cashal, representing the coal drivers' union, were authority for tho assertion that by nlht all the coal drivers of tho greater city, numbering probably 1,-tOO 1,-tOO men, would be on etriki-. Secretary Charles W. Forester, or the International Brotherhood of Teamster, announced today that 1.200 I union chauffeurs bad returned to i work. Practically alt of tho umaller ; companies, employing fifty mn or leas, have signed, tbo union agreement. agree-ment. i |