Karen Frillman offers a portrait of the labor leader and cultural impresario Moe Foner, who died last week at the age of 86. Foner was the executive secretary of the New York’s Health and Human Service Union — Local 1199 — and helped it win important battles over wages and benefits. He also launched and ran the Bread and Roses program, which brought art, theater and song to working people.
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