Vasiliy Balik (or Wasily Balick/Bilicki)

Born: 1896, Kiev, Russia (present-day Ukraine)
Nationality: Russian
Ethnicity: Ukrainian
Occupation: Laborer
Migration: Immigrated to US 1913
Affiliation: Union of Russian Workers

Employee of Remington Arms Union Metallic Cartridge Company, in Bridgeport, Connecticut. In August 1919 he joined the Union of Russian Workers and was arrested the following month in Hartford. Deported on the Buford on December 21, 1919.

Sources: INS file 54709/389.

Ugo Balzano

Born: 1882, Castel di Sangro, Aquila, Italy
Nationality: Italian
Ethnicity:
Occupation: Typographer
Migration: Immigrated to US 1903
Affiliation: Anarchist

Employed by Cleveland’s mainstream Italian-language newspaper La Voce del Popolo Italiano. Active in anarchist circles, he belonged to the Circolo Studi Sociali di Cleveland, distributed Cronaca Sovversiva, and published the anarchist paper L’Appello (1916–17). deported on July 28, 1919.

Upon his return to Italy he was immediately arrested for draft evasion during the war. Later subscribed to the paper La Frustra, published by fellow deportee Giobbe Sanchini. Balzano died in his hometown in 1926.

Sources: INS file 54616/348; CPC busta 298; http://bibliotecaborghi.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Cicolani-La-presenza-anarchica.pdf.

Walter Banaczyk

Born: 1901, Słupia, Russia (present-day Poland)
Nationality: Russian
Ethnicity: Polish
Occupation: Automobile worker
Migration: Immigrated to US 1915
Affiliation: Communist Party of America

Migrated to the United States with his mother to rejoin his father. Employed at the Fisher Body plant in Detroit, he joined Branch 37 of the Polish Section of the Communist Party of America in December 1919. Arrested in January 1920 at the age of eighteen, he “voluntary departed” to Poland on October 16, 1920.

Sources: INS file 54859/569; FBI files OG 382042 and BS 202600-768-1.

Peter P. Banaitis

Born: 1899, Lithuania
Nationality: Lithuanian
Ethnicity: Lithuanian
Occupation: Miner; laborer; toolmaker
Migration: Immigrated to US 1911
Affiliation: Communist Party of America

Joined Branch 37 of the Lithuanian Section of the Communist Party of America. Arrested in Chicago in January 1920, he remarked that “as people are thrown in jail here for their beliefs he thinks he will enjoy just as much liberty in his native country.” An immigration inspector described him as “a typical Bolshevik and…more or less intelligent…This individual should be deported by all means as he is manifestly and potentially a bad influence.” He was deported to Lithuania on December 9, 1920.

Sources: INS file 54811/563; FBI file OG 382041.

Daniel Bardaio (or Bardal)

Born: c. 1882, Russia
Nationality: Russian
Ethnicity:
Occupation: Laborer
Migration: Immigrated to US 1906
Affiliation: Communist Party of America

First migrated to the United States in 1906, then moved to Canada in 1908, and returned to the U.S. in 1915. Initially a member of the Socialist Party of America, he later joined the First Russian Branch of the Communist Party of America in Philadelphia. Bardaio was deported on February 1, 1921.

Sources: INS file 54859/124.

Moses Baritz

Born: 1883, Manchester, England
Nationality: British
Ethnicity: Russian; Jewish
Occupation: Musician; journalist
Migration: Immigrated to US 1915
Affiliation: Socialist Party of Great Britain; Socialist Party of the United States

Born in England to Russian Jewish immigrant parents. A musician and journalist, Baritz became a prominent member of the small and sectarian Socialist Party of Great Britain and gained notoriety as a skilled Marxist debater. He migrated to Canada in 1910, helping found the “impossibilist” Socialist Party of North America in 1911, before returning to Britain in 1914 and then moving to the United States in 1915 to avoid conscription. In Detroit he cofounded the small “impossibilist” Socialist Party of the United States (which eventually became the World Socialist Party of the United States). Arrested in Seattle in 1918 due to mistaken identity—he was erroneously alleged to be a Russian anarchist and IWW member—he was permitted to “reship foreign” as a sailor to Australia on September 10, 1918.

Baritz subsequently debated rival radicals in Australia, was the first person expelled from New Zealand in January 1920 under that country’s Undesirable Immigrants Exclusion Act, was barred from entry to Canada, returned to Australia, and was deported again in 1920. On the voyage to England he was barred from disembarking in Cape Town to deliver a speech, but was allowed to briefly go ashore in Durban. In England he resumed SPGB activities and became a noted music critic, and in 1924 he became Britain’s first radio disc jockey. He died in 1938.

Sources: INS file 54408/12; http://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2014/09/death-of-moses-baritz.html; https://www.solidarityforeverbook.com/book/solidarityforever.pdf; Ian Angus, Canadian Bolsheviks: The Early Years of the Communist Party of Canada; Karla Doris Rab, Role-Modeling Socialist Behavior: The Life and Letters of Isaac Rab.