A 1934 NYC taxi drivers' strike led him to write "Waiting for Lefty", the first of his plays to be produced
[DOC] [TLE] Waiting for Lefty | Life-Long Wobbly [PAR] Oct 9, 2014 ... Poster for MCTC's production of Waiting for Lefty ... Odets sets the play up as a 
meeting of a taxi drivers' union in New York City, with only one item on the 
agenda: a strike.