Zachary Shardov (Захарий Шардов; Sharkoff)

Born Minsk Province, Russia (present-day Belarus) c.1896. Migrated to US 1912. Machinist. Joined the Union of Russian Workers in Hartford, Connecticut in 1917 or 1918. Arrested January 1920. When interrogated declared, “where there is Government there is no freedom.” Deported to Russia, January 21, 1921.

INS file 54861/83

Nicholas Shattovaloff (Shapovaloff; aka Nich Shap)

Born c.1880, Russia. Migrated to the US in 1907. Machinist (missing part of a finger on his right hand). Lived in Seattle and San Francisco, then Honolulu, HI 1908-1917, then Seattle again. In Hawaii met his companion, a Russian widow named Tina Selznoff, “with whom he lived as man and wife in Honolulu,” and she came back with him to the continental US. During his interrogation, he was asked:

• Q. Do you believe in polygamy?
• A. No, one is enough…[S]ince we have no children, I hold this woman as a free woman to act as she pleases…I am single but I have got a wife.

Member of the International Association of Machinists (AFL). Arrested in Seattle. Denied URW membership, but said he believed in the principles of the organization and attended URW meetings. “I believe but I don’t belong. I have been to the meetings lots of times.” “Voluntary departure” to Russia, January 27, 1922.

INS file 54861/49

Stepan Shatuka (Степан Шатука; Stephen)

Born 1888, Mogilev region, Russia (present-day Belarus). Migrated to US 1914. 1918 joined the Union of Russian Workers in Seattle. Arrested during the second Palmer Raids, January 1920. When asked what the URW stood for, replied, “To destroy to the power of the capitalists…By a world wide revolution.” Original warrant for deportation listed Poland as his destination; he successfully petitioned to have it changed to Russia. Deported January 22, 1921.

INS file 54861/28

John Sheehan

Born 1863, Roscommon, Ireland. Construction worker; lumber worker. Migrated to US 1904. 1917 joined the IWW; became an organizer and delegate. Arrested January 1918 in Yakima, Washington. Denied British citizenship, declaring, “I never owed allegiance to England; I was a native of Great Britain in my boyhood, but when I came here I…no longer belonged to that.” Deported February 27, 1919.

INS file 54379/54

Gordei Sheika (George Schaiko, Гордей Шейка)

Born 1883, Streli, Russia (present-day Belarus). Metalworker. Migrated to US 1912. Wife and three children in Russia. Joined the Union of Russian Workers in New Castle, Pennsylvania. Also a member of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers and participated in the 1919 steel strike as an employee at the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company. Deported on the Buford.

INS files 54709/546 and 54616/116; FBI file OG 378918

Mikail Sheleg (Микаил Шелег; Shelef)

Born 1893, Minsk, Russia (present-day Belarus). Printer. Year of migration to US unknown. Joined the Communist Party of America in Bayonne, New Jersey, 1919. Arrested during the second Palmer Raids, January 1920. Deported December 23, 1920.

See: Morning Post (Camden NJ), December 23, 1920; Ancestry.com

Nestor Mikhailovich Sheleg (Нестор Михайлович Шелег; Nasto; Michaelovich)

Born 1895, Minsk, Russia (present-day Belarus). Migrated to US 1914. 1919 joined the Union of Russian Workers in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Employed at Singer Sewing Machine Company. Arrested during first Palmer Raids, November 1919. Deported on the Buford.

INS file 54709/393