Eduardo Paredes García
Born: 1895, A Coruña, Spain
Nationality: Spanish
Ethnicity: Galician
Occupation: Sailor; bookkeeper
Migration: Immigrated to US 1916
Affiliation: IWW; anarchist
Emigrated Cuba and then, in 1916, to the United States. An anarchist, he joined the Industrial Workers of the World’s Marine Transport Workers in 1917 and edited the IWW newspaper Defensa Obrera. During the federal IWW trial, he served as an assistant to the IWW’s attorney, George Vanderveer. He was also a member of Philadelphia’s anarchist Pro-Prensa group. Arrested in Philadelphia, he was deported to Spain on December 20, 1919.
Sources: INS file 54648/28; Peter Cole, Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia.
Luigi Parenti
Born: 1887, Calcinaia, Italy
Nationality: Italian
Ethnicity:
Occupation: Laborer; union organizer; journalist
Migration: Immigrated to US 1910
Affiliation: IWW; anarchist
Initially a Christian democrat and completed two years of seminary study in Lucca before abandoning religious training, marrying, and assisting an Italian streetcar drivers’ strike.
He emigrated to the United States with his wife Maria in 1910 and soon became an anarchist, joining the Industrial Workers of the World in San Francisco in 1911. He became a lecturer and organizer for the IWW and was arrested several times for leading strikes and demonstrations. Italian consular authorities described him as “one of the most dangerous propagandists in the anarchist movement across the United States,” calling him “taciturn in character, educated, intelligent, [and] cultured.” A defendant in the mass IWW trial of 1917–1918, he was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment and a $30,000 fine. From September 1917 to June 1919 he was denied permission to communicate with his wife and three daughters, one of whom was born while he was incarcerated. Released on bail pending appeal, he worked as an organizer for an independent Italian fishermen’s union in San Francisco and later as a correspondent for La Voce del Popolo. After losing his appeal in May 1921, he reentered prison, but in 1922 his sentence was commuted on condition of deportation. He “voluntarily departed” with his family on October 26, 1922.
Back in Italy, he settled in Lucca, joined the syndicalist Unione Sindacale Italiana, and attended its illegal 1926 convention. He later withdrew from overt radical activity and worked for a Fascist state-created union and as a reporter. Official reports alternately described him as obedient to Fascist directives (1929), secretly receiving radical publications from the United States (1930), and again demonstrating “good moral and political conduct” aligned with the regime (1932). The true nature of his political beliefs in these years is unclear. Died in 1961.
Sources: INS file 54235/61; CPC busta 3732; Industrial Workers of the World Collection, Walter P. Reuther Library; Kenyon Zimmer, Immigrants Against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America.
Feodor Pasiuk (a.k.a. Theodor, Paschuk)
Born: c. 1880, Grodno, Russia (present-day Belarus)
Nationality: Russian
Ethnicity:
Occupation: Laborer
Migration: Immigrated to US 1913
Affiliation: Communist Party of America
His wife and child remained in Russia when he emigrated. Became a member of Detroit’s Russian Branch No. 3 of the Communist Party of America. Arrested January 4, 1920, he was deported to Russia on March 18, 1921.
Sources: INS file 54859/967.
Lev Paskevich (a.k.a. Levi Paskevick; Paskovich)
Born: c. 1889, Grodno, Russia (present-day Belarus)
Nationality: Russian
Ethnicity:
Occupation: Ship rigger
Migration: Migrated to US 1913
Affiliation: Communist Party of America
Joined the Socialist Party of America and later Philadelphia’s First Branch of the Communist Party of America. Arrested January 7, 1920, he was deported to Russia on February 1, 1921 aboard the SS Estonia.
Sources: INS file 54859/134; Philadelphia Enquirer, February 1, 1921.
John Paskvalick (or Pashvalisk)
Born: Austria-Hungary, year unknown
Nationality: Austrian
Ethnicity:
Occupation:
Migration: M
Affiliation:
Deported to Austria as a radical on June 19, 1920. No further information has been found.
Sources: INS file 54325/36G.
George Pasukow
Born: Russia, year unknown
Nationality: Russian
Ethnicity:
Occupation:
Migration: M
Affiliation:
Deported to Russia as a radical on October 17, 1920. No further information has been found.
Sources: INS file 54325/36G.
Peter Pavlas (a.k.a. Pete Pawlas)
Born: 1885, Warsaw, Russia (present-day Poland)
Nationality: Russian
Ethnicity: Czech
Occupation: Machinist; laborer
Migration: Immigrated to US 1917
Affiliation: Socialist Party of America
The child of Czech (“Bohemian”) immigrants in Russia, he returned with his parents to Bohemia in 1894. In he 1909 migrated to Argentina; then to Mexico in 1915.
Entered the United States in 1917 without inspection as a contract laborer to work in a sugar factory near San Francisco. An immigration agent described him as “a peculiar character, being somewhat of a ‘globe trotter’, and a student of Esperanto…He is believed to be more intelligent than he would represent.” Arrested in Cleveland on January 31, 1919 while distributing Socialist Party literature and was reportedly in poor health while detained at Ellis Island. Because Socialist Party membership was not a deportable offense, authorities acknowledged they could not substantiate anarchism charges, but he was nevertheless deported on the Buford on December 21, 1919 on the grounds that he had entered the country without inspection and was “likely to become a public charge.”
Sources: INS file 54616/16.
Artemy Pavluk (or Pauluk; Paulik)
Born: 1885, Kamianets-Podilskyi, Russia (present-day Ukraine)
Nationality: Russian
Ethnicity:
Occupation: Miner
Migration: Immigrated to US 1913
Affiliation: Union of Russian Workers
He served four years in the Russian Army before emigrating.
Drafted into the U.S. Army, he served six months at Camp Lee and Camp Shelby before being discharged. Became secretary of the Union of Russian Workers branch at the Dakota Mine in Fairmont, West Virginia. Arrested December 2, 1919, he was deported on the Buford on December 21, 1919.
Sources: INS file 54709/605.
Josef Penske (a.k.a. Joseph Penski)
Born: 1886, Grodno, Russia (present-day Belarus)
Nationality: Russian
Ethnicity: Polish
Occupation: Autoworker
Migration: Immigrated to US 1912
Affiliation: Communist Party of America
Worked as an autoworker while living in Hamtramck, Michigan. He joined the Socialist Party of America in 1914 and later the Communist Party. Arrested in January 1920, he “voluntarily departed” to Russia on October 16, 1920.
Sources: INS file 54859/541.
