Mikhail Orlov (Михаил Орлов; Mike; Orloff)
Born 1889, Mogilev, Russia (present-day Belarus). Miner. Migrated to US 1909. Joined the Union of Russian Workers in Homestead, Pennsylvania in 1915. Also a member of the United Mine Workers. “It is suspected…that alien is one of the moving spirits of the branch of the Union of Russian Workers which is thought to exist in the Bertha mines” in Morgantown, West Virginia. Received anarchist and IWW literature from Max Maisel’s anarchist bookstore in New York. Arrested December 1, 1919 (during miners’ strike). Deported on the Buford.
INS file 54709/608
Samuel Orlov (Самуил Орлов; Sam; Orloff)
Born 1889, Mogliev, Russia (present-day Belarus). Miner. Migrated to US 1912. Joined the Union of Russian Workers in Mosessen, Pennsylvania, circa 1915. Also a member of the United Mine Workers. Arrested December 1, 1919 (during miners’ strike). Deported on the Buford.
INS file 54709/609; FBI file OG 8000-248688
Albert Osborn
Born 1898, Førde, Norway. Sailor; laborer. Migrated to US 1909 with step-mother to rejoin father. 1915 went to England as a sailor; returned 1916 (without inspection). Joined the IWW in Devil’s Lake, North Dakota in 1915, but during his inspection claimed “I don’t care much about them…I had to join, because it was a matter of joining them or getting beaten up in going around the country in the harvest fields…they throw you from trains going sixty miles an hour.” 1917 arrested in Everett, Washington for not registering for the draft; served 13 days in jail. Arrested May 23, 1918 in Seattle as an IWW member. Diagnosed as “insane” June 6, 1918 due to “dementia praecox” resulting from a head injury as a child.Deported September 20, 1919 (as “likely to become a public charge,” entering without inspection, and suffering from “insanity”). According to Commissioner General of Immigration A. Caminetti, “the charge against him does not arise, even remotely, from his connection with the I.W.W.”
INS file 54414/81
Anton Ostopchuk
Born c. 1886 in present-day Ukraine. Migrated to US 1912. Metalworker. Wife and two children in Russia. Member of Detroit’s Russian Branch No. 3 of the Communist Party. Arrested January 1920; Deported to Russia March 18, 1921.
INS file 54859/719
Nikolai (“Nick”) Ostreiko
Born Lida, Russia (present-day Belarus), 1877. Migrated to US 1910. Member of Flint, Michigan’s Russian Branch of the Socialist Party, then transferred to the Communist Party. Arrested January 1920. Deported to Russia March 18, 1921.
INS file 54860/739
Osip Otrozttzek (Otroschyk, O’Troschy, aka Joe Trocki)
Born 1880, Vilnius, Russia (present-day Lithuania). Polish. Migrated to US 1913. Laborer. Wife in Russia. Employed at Fisher Body Company. Illiterate. Member of Detroit’s Russian Branch No. 3 of the Communist Party. Arrested January 1920; held at Fort Wayne. “Voluntary departure” to Russia via Canada, January 24, 1921.
INS file 54859/989
Yakov Ozols (Яков Озолс; Jacob; Ozal; Ozols)
Born c.1887, Riga, Russia (present-day Latvia). Migrated to US 1917. Sailor, laborer. Joined the Socialist Party, then the Russian Branch of the Communist Party of America in Philadelphia. Arrested January 7, 1920. Deported February 1, 1921.
INS file 54811/944; FBI file OG 8000-276616
Peter Paich (Paick)
Born 1897, Požega, Austria-Hungary (present-day Croatia). Migrated to US 1913. Joined the Socialist Party of American in Detroit and 1915, and the Workers’ International Industrial Union in 1918 in Lorain, Ohio. Arrested August 1917 in Lorain for distributing socialist literature and spent four days in jail; arrested April, 1918, for distributing socialist and anti-conscription literature; then interned at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, as an “enemy alien”; detained for deportation upon his release in September 1919; Deported May 8, 1920 (on the charge of being “likely to become a public charge,” as SP and WIIU membership did not meet the legal definition of a deportable “anarchist”).
INS file 54379/474; FBI file OG 8000-203962
Alexandr Palukevich (Александр Палукевич; Alexander; Palukovich; Pavlukoich)
Communist Party of America member in Bayonne, New Jersey; deported to Russia December 23, 1920.
Included on list of deported radicals in INS file 54325/36G
Pavel Panasuk (Павел Панасук; Paul; Panosik)
Member of the Communist Party of America in Chicago. Arrested during the second Palmer Raids, January 2, 1920. “Voluntarily departed” to Russia October 10, 1920.
FBI file BS 202600-149-1
Joseph T. Pandack
Deported to Yugoslavia August 1, 1920.
Included on list of deported radicals in INS file 54325/36G
Dimitri Panko (Дмитрий Панко; Panco)
Born 1890, Minsk, Russia (present-day Belarus). Mechanic. Migrated to US 1914. Joined Branch No. 2 of the Union of Russian Workers in Newark, for which he distributed literature. Deported on the Buford.
INS file 54709/112
Pavel Pankov (Павел Панков; Pual Panko; Pankoff)
Born Mogliev, Russia (present-day Belarus), 1886. Migrated to US 1907. Moulder. Joined the Socialist Party 1914, then Detroit’s Russian Branch of the Communist Party in 1919. Bartender at Detroit’s House of the Masses. Arrested January 1920; deported to Russia, February 26, 1921.
INS file 54859/634
Kostas Papadogiannis
Born in 1885 in Greece. Immigrated to the United States in 1908. Secretary of New York’s Greek Socialist Union and the printer of its newspaper, Phone tou Ergatou (Voice of the Worker), founded 1918. Became a member of the Communist Party of America. Deported to Greece in early 1921.
In Greece, wrote for the Greek Socialist Workers’ Party newspaper and established “a leftist publishing house in Athens,” initially printing Communist literature but, after 1924, he “distanced himself and published Marxist literature from dissenting members and oppositional material, such as Trotsky’s biography of Lenin in 1929.” Also distributed Greek-language Marxist works published in the United States, such as the first Greek translation of Lenin’s The State and Revolution.
See: Kostis Karpozilos, Red America: Greek Communists in the United States, 1920-1950; additional information supplied by Kostis Karpozilos, August 23, 2024