Lazar Makliarchuk (or Matliarchok)
Born: 1878, Kamianets-Podilskyi, Russia (present-day Ukraine)
Nationality: Russian
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Migration: Immigrated to US 1913
Affiliation: Communist Party of America
Joined the Socialist Party of America and later the Communist Party of America in Philadelphia. Arrested January 7, 1920, he was deported to Russia February 1, 1921.
Sources: INS file 54811/943.
Ivan Malash (a.k.a. John Malash)
Born: 1891, Aleksandrovka, Minsk, Russia (present-day Belarus)
Nationality: Russian
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Occupation: Mason; laborer
Migration: Immigrated to US 1913
Affiliation: Union of Russian Workers
Joined the Norwich, Connecticut branch of the URW in October 1919 and became its financial secretary. Arrested at his home in Yantic, Connecticut, February 1920, he was deported January 22, 1921.
Sources: INS file 54861/10; FBI file OG 353738.
Vasily Malevsky (a.k.a. Wassily Maliewsky)
Born: 1898, Khomsk, Grodno, Russia (present-day Belarus)
Nationality: Russian
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Occupation: Machinist
Migration: Immigrated to US 1914
Affiliation: Union of Russian Workers
Joined the URW in Newark in April 1919, though evidence suggested he may have been a member as early as 1917. Arrested during a raid on URW headquarters in Akron, Ohio, during the first Palmer Raids in November 1919, he was deported on the Buford on December 21, 1919.
Sources: INS file 54709/536.
Dan Malina
Born: 1894, Grodno region, Russia (present-day Belarus)
Nationality: Russian
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Occupation: Metalworker
Migration: Immigrated to US 1913
Affiliation: Union of Russian Workers
Worked in New Castle and Elwood, Pennsylvania, and later in Akron for Firestone. Arrested November 1919 for belonging to the URW, he denied radicalism and was released for lack of evidence. Rearrested February 22, 1921, he admitted being an anarchist and was deported March 18, 1921.
Sources: INS file 55009/21; FBI file OG 8000-355192.
Karl Malmstrom
Born: 1897, Ystad, Sweden
Nationality: Swedish
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Occupation: Laborer
Migration: Immigrated to US 1915
Affiliation: IWW
Joined the IWW in Portland, Oregon, December 1916. Arrested February 1917 in San Francisco for distributing IWW literature and sentenced to sixty days, he was arrested again in Seattle in 1918 on the same charge and in Everett, Washington, March 1919, when he was held for deportation. Asked if he wished to become a US citizen, he replied, “Never…I am a citizen of the world,” and stated “that workers should be ready to take up arms for industrial freedom”For the workers to get industrial freedom, I would pick up arms at any time…Just like in Russia—do away with the parasites.” He was deported June 29, 1919 as “likely to become a public charge.”
Sources: INS file 54616/34.
Ustin Manko (a.k.a. Austin; Justyn)
Born: 1894, Kherson, Russia (present-day Ukraine)
Nationality: Russian
Ethnicity: Ukrainian
Occupation: Machinist
Migration: Immigrated to US 1913
Affiliation: Union of Russian Workers
Joined the URW in Bridgeport, Connecticut, May 1919. Arrested February 1920, he married Julia Chervenak while on bail from Ellis Island May 11, 1920. Deported January 22, 1921, accompanied by Julia.
In Ukraine they had a son. Suspected by Bolsheviks of being a spy, he migrated with his family in 1924 to Turkey, then France (where a daughter was born), and in 1927 to Mexico (where another son was born). Julia, a US citizen, returned to the United States in 1932 and brought their children in 1933, but Manko was forced to remain in Mexico City. His attempts to rejoin them failed after a US Public Health inspector deemed him “insane.” Letters to his family became increasingly paranoid and incoherent. He died in Mexico City in 1976. He is the subject (under the name “Austin Voronkov”) of the semi-fictional novel The Invention of Exile (2014) by his granddaughter, Vanessa Manko.
Sources: INS file 54861/146; FBI file OG 8000-382402; https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/what-happens-to-the-deported; Vanessa Manko, The Invention of Exile: A Novel; interview with Vanessa Manko, New York City, June 13, 2018.
Pavel Manko
Born: Russia
Nationality: Russian
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Deported to Russia as a radical on January 22, 1921. No further information has been found.
Sources: INS file 54325/36G.
Julius Manninger (a.k.a. Julius Pichler; Julian)
Born: 1896, Ponitz, Austria-Hungary (present-day Hungary)
Nationality: Austrian
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Occupation: Laborer
Migration: Immigrated to US 1909
Affiliation: Socialist Party of America
Joined the Socialist Party and attended a single meeting of the Communist Party of America. Arrested January 1920 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, he was deported to Austria June 22, 1920 as an alleged Communist Party member.
In February 1921 Assistant Secretary of Labor Louis F. Post concluded that the deportation had been carried out in error due to a misunderstanding of the facts. Manninger returned to the United States in December 1921 under his family name, Pichler, and declared his intention to become a US citizen.
Sources: INS file 54859/122; Hancock Democrat (Greenfield IN), January 26, 1922; Garrett Clipper (Garrett IN), January 30, 1922.
