Alfons Hajduk (Alfonso; Alfonse; Hajdak; Haiduk; Hieduk; Hyduk)

Born 1886, Volhynia, Russia (present-day Ukraine). Polish. Window cleaner. Migrated to US 1913. Wife and child in Russia. Joined Union of Russian Workers in Newark. Arrested during first Palmer Raids, November 1919. Deported on the Buford.

INS file 54709/357

Onofry Halevich

Communist Party of America member. Deported June 1920 to either Austria or Yugoslavia. No further information found.

Included on lists of deported radicals in INS file 54325/36G and FBI file BS 202600-33

Vazil Haluszak (Basil; William Halussosek)

Communist Party of America member. Deported March 1920 to Galicia.

Included on lists of deported radicals in INS file 54325/36G and FBI file BS 202600-33

Peter Hancharuk

“Voluntarily departed” to Russia sometime between December 20, 1919 and February 2, 1921.

Included on list of deported radicals in INS file 54325/36G

Stanley Haranin (B. Haranin)

Born Vilna, Russia (present-day Lithuania), 1894. Migrated to US 1913. Tailor. Joined the Socialist Party, then Milwaukee’s Russian Branch No. 1 of the Communist Party. Arrested January 2, 1920. Deported March 18, 1921.

INS file 54809/152

Vasil Haritouchik (William Hatrinuk; Wasil Haryntoczyk; Chartonchak)

Born 1888, Minsk, Russia (present-day Belarus). Laborer. Migrated to US 1913. 1918 joined Socialist Party of America, and in 1919 transferred to Russian Branch no. 1 of the Communist Party of America, Detroit. Arrested during second Palmer Raids, January 1920. “Voluntarily departed” October 1920.

INS file 54859/735; FBI file OG 386253

Leo Haskevich (Leonti Hackwicz; Leonte Hackewicz; Leo Haskewich; aka Sittimikoff)

Born 1896, Grodno, Russia (present-day Belarus). Laborer. Migrated to US 1913. Not political in Russia; joined Union of Russian Workers in Akron, 1917. Involved in attempt to organize strike of Akron rubber workers; arrested December 1917. Deported on the Buford.

INS file 54235/159

Ernest Emil Albert Heitmiller (E.A. Heitmiller)

Born 1887, Linden-Limmer, Germany. Sailor; lumber worker. Migrated to US 1914 (via Canada, without inspection). Joined IWW, for which he became a delegate and organizer. Arrested Seattle, February 1919. Deported January 1920.

INS file 54645/435; FBI file OG 347306

Petr Herasevich (or Gerasevich)

Born 1892, Kobryn, Russia (present-day Belarus). Pipe inspector. Migrated to US 1913. Wife and son in Russia. Joined Youngstown, Ohio branch of the Union of Russian Workers in January 1919. Arrested during first Palmer Raids, November 1919. On strike from Youngstown Sheet & Tube when arrested. Deported on the Buford.

INS file 54709/513

José Ángel Hernández

Born 1885, Tepic, Mexico. Bricklayer; carpenter. By 1906 was living in Los Angeles and a member of the Grupo Reforma, Libertad y Justicia, which was affiliated with the Partido Liberal Mexicano. 1911 in Houston, TX and head of PLM-affiliated Grupo Regeneración Solidaridad Obrera. 1913 joined the IWW. 1914 married fellow PLM member Elisa Alemán; daughter Emancipación born later that year. 1915 became organizer for the Socialist Party’s Land League of Texas. In San Antonio, member of PLM-affiliated Grupo Germinal. 1916 daughter Susana born, but he separated from Elisa. 1917 active in Grupo Solidaridad in Houston and founded a Mixed Local of the IWW in the city, for which he was elected secretary. Arrested August 22, 1917 due to IWW organizing. August 31, 1917 illegally deported by a member of the Bureau of Investigation.

Active in IWW and Casa del Obrero Mundial in Tampico and joined Hermanos Rojos, becoming a regular contributor to its paper Germinal. January 1918 elected as General Secretary of the Casa del Obrero Mundial in Tampico. By March 1918 no longer a member of Hermanos Rojos. Cofounded and edited Fuerza y Cerebro. Arrested August 1918 for organizing activity. Began writing for anarchist paper Luz! 1919 arrested as a leader of oil worker strike in Tampico. March 1920 founded Liga Socialista in Tampico, which endorsed electoral activity. 1921 arrested for helping organize IWW strike in Tampico. 1921 accused of mismanaging funds raised for a new radical publication, and disappeared; rumored to have gone to Russia.

Files 232-84 and 232-2971, Mexican Files, FBI

See also: Steve Rossignol, “A Forgotten Wobbly: José Ángel Hernández Across Two Nations,” Anarcho-Syndicalist Review, Summer 2024

Jacob Heroch (or Horoch)

Deported to Russia December 1920.

Included on list of deported radicals in INS file 54325/36G

Christopher Hetagureff

Deported to Russia January 1921.

Included on list of deported radicals in INS file 54325/36G

John Charles Hicke (John Kicke; aka Kurowsky)

Born 1882, Bukovina, Austria-Hungary (present-day Romania). Laborer. Migrated to US 1913 (via Canada). No apparent political affiliation. Arrested April 1918, in Oxford, Mississippi and interned as an “enemy alien” for nearly two years at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, then detained by immigration authorities. Declared: “I am opposed to the Government of the United States and its peoples. I do not think its peoples are intelligent enough to govern themselves…I think the government should be overthrown and to accomplish this end every action would be justified.” However, later claimed this was simply a ploy to be deported as quickly as possible, as advised by Imre Guerry (Isso Gartner). Repeatedly wrote to US and Austrian officials to expedite his case. Deported to Romania June 1920.

INS file 54861/404