Biography
William Parson was a Slovan striker shot in the arm and arrested during the National Miners' Union coal strike that swept Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia in the summer of 1931, when more than a thousand strikers, their wives and children were arrested.
Portrait: native photograph in Labor Defender, July 1931, inside cover. The caption identifies William Parson in the explicitly ordered group of three arrested miners.
Source: original issue, PDF page 2.
