One-act drama in which the theatre becomes a meeting hall of the taxi drivers' union, which is about to take a strike vote. Union officers are onstage, and the members are dispersed among the audience. Since Lefty, the members' militant representative, has not arrived at the meeting, Fatt, the union secretary, and other officers and racketeers have taken the time to belittle the membership's strike talk.
The members jeer as Fatt angrily asks where Lefty is, insinuating that he has run out. In order to vouch for Lefty and assure the membership that the strike is justified, several members of the committee come forward to speak. As they talk, flashes of their lives appear behind them. Joe speaks of his wife Edna, their financial difficulties, and their final resolve to take a stand in favour of the strike despite the hardship it will entail.
A scene that depicts a war-mongering industrialist is followed by another in which a young driver and his girl bitterly agree that they cannot afford to marry on his wages. Finally, aroused by the discovery of the presence in the hall of a management spy and by the news that Lefty has been killed by an unknown assailant, the members vote to strike, shouting with increasing fervour: "Strike! Strike! Strike!"