Biography
The October 1932 Labor Defender prison roster identifies Freniando Pecirello among coal-strike prisoners actually confined in the Allegheny County Workhouse at Blawnox, Pennsylvania. The article attributes their imprisonment to the 1931 miners’ strike led by the National Miners Union and reports Pecirello, Will MacQueen and Pete Jugrine each serving a one-year sentence. It describes these three as Black miners. The printed first name is retained without silently normalizing it to Fernando. One year is the nominal sentence, not an established completed duration; individual admission and release dates are absent. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/1932/v08n10-oct-1932-LD.pdf#page=21 The article dates sentencing of this workhouse cohort to the previous year,1931; no individual month or day is printed.
