A 1934 NYC taxi drivers' strike led him to write "Waiting for Lefty", the first of his plays to be produced
... New York taxi strike of February 1934, although Odets claimed that when the 
play... [DOC] [TLE] Waiting for Lefty - Dictionary definition of Waiting for Lefty ... [PAR] A one-act play in eight episodes, Waiting for Lefty is composed of two basic 
stagings.