A 1934 NYC taxi drivers' strike led him to write "Waiting for Lefty", the first of his plays to be produced
He continued to write screenplays, teleplays, and dramas but his 
production ... Fayette compliments Miller's work, gives him a twenty-dollar raise, 
and tells ..... 1934 New York taxi strike (the incident on which Waiting for Lefty is 
based).