Arthur Katzes (Katses; Kestes; Ketzus; Katz)
Born 1897, Podolia, Russia (present-day Ukraine). Printer. Had been a student in Russia and apprenticing as a pressman; worked as a sailor to pay for passage to US in 1914 (entered without inspection). Worked as printer in US. Joined Union of Russian Workers circa 1917; member of the editorial board of URW newspaper Khleb i Volia. Arrested March 1919 in New York. Released on bail; collaborated on producing the illegal Anarchist Soviet Bulletin; arrested with Ethel Bernstein in September 1919 for distributing copies of that paper. Deported on the Buford.
INS file 54616/115
See also: Richard Polenberg, Fighting Faiths: The Abrams Case, the Supreme Court, and Free Speech
Joe Kaunas (Kavnas; Bogdonas; Boglonas)
Born Russian Lithuania, 1885. Migrated to US 1913; entered illegally. Coal miner; student. Miner in Wilkes Barre, PA, then attended Valparaiso University when arrested. Member of Valparaiso Branch No. 20 of the Communist Party of America. Arrested January 14, 1920. Claimed Lithuanian citizenship, but deported to Russia March 18, 1921.
INS file 54860/713
Teleso Kavalianskas (Stanley; Kavalionskas, Kavalauskas; Talespor Kavalanchas)
Born 1881, Kovno, Russia (present-day Lithuania). Lithuanian. To US 1912. Secretary of Branch No. 43 of the Lithuanian Federation the Communist Party of America in Detroit. Arrested during second Palmer Raids, January 1920. “Voluntary departure” October 20, 1920 via Canada.
INS file 54709/954; FBI file BS 202600-155-1
Joseph (“Joe”) Kennedy
Born 1885, Belfast, Ireland. Miner. Migrated to US 1905. Joined IWW 1917; became secretary of Metal Mine Workers’ Industrial Union No. 800 in Butte, Montana. Arrested multiple times for IWW activity. Worked with IWW organizer Frank Little before Little was lynched in Butte in 1917. Also “active…in the cause of Irish independence.” Arrested February 1919, in aftermath of miners’ strike. Deported June 1919.
Joined Merseyside IWW branch in Liverpool. Involved in robberies to help fund Irish Republican Army activities. 1924 reportedly intended to return to US illegally.
INS file 54616/74
See also: Butte Daily Bulletin, June 13, 1919; Socialist Review (London), February 1, 1959
Ilya Kerczuk (Ellis Kerchuk; Navul Kerchuk)
Born c. 1898, Grodno, Russia (present-day Belarus). Migrated to US 1913. Deported to Russia February 1, 1921. No further information found. Laborer and longshoreman in Camden, New Jersey and New York. Arrested May 1919 in Philadelphia by company guards of Pusey and Jones Shipbuilding Company of Gloucester City, NJ, for distributing “Bolshevik circulars” on company grounds. Deported February 1, 1921.
INS file File 54616/173
Boris Keretchuk
Born 1894, Grodno, Russia (present-day Belarus). Laborer. Migrated to US 1916. Joined the Union of Russian Workers branch in Newark. Arrested during first Palmer Raids, November 1919. Deported on the Buford.
INS file 54709/358
Nuval Kerget (Nabul; Нувал Кергет)
Born 1875, Minsk Governorate, Russia (present-day Belarus). 1910 migrated to US (Honolulu); 1918 moved to Seattle. Lumber worker. Member of the Union of Russian Workers in Seattle, also a member of the IWW in 1919. Arrested January 1920. Deported to Russia, February 26, 1921.
INS file 54860/569; FBI file OG 389514
Ivan Kesevich
Deported to Yugoslavia, September 1, 1920.
Included on list of deported radicals in INS file 54325/36G
Olan Killen
IWW member. Deported October 31, 1919.
Included on list of deported IWW members in One Big Union Monthly, March 1920
William Kircher
Born 1892, Hesse, Germany. Laborer. Migrated to US 1906. Joined IWW 1917. Arrested May 1918 in Seattle; interned as “enemy alien” at Fort Douglas, Utah. “Voluntary departure” 1919.
INS file 54408/512; FBI file OG 193587