A 1934 NYC taxi drivers' strike led him to write "Waiting for Lefty", the first of his plays to be produced
The 1934 Waterfront Strike in Seattle, a special section of our sister 
project,... [DOC] [TLE] Clifford Odets - Gvsu [PAR] Waiting for Lefty, 5 January 1935, Civic Repertory Theatre, New York; 26 March 
1935 ... Odets's first few plays, which catapulted him virtually overnight to fame 
and ... over his floundering career, Odets began to write a play about Beethoven.