Alfons Hajduk

Born: 1886, Volhynia, Russia (present-day Ukraine)
Nationality: Russian
Ethnicity: Polish
Occupation: Window cleaner
Migration: Immigrated to US 1913
Affiliations: Union of Russian Workers

His wife and child remained in Russia while he emigrated. He joined the Union of Russian Workers in Newark, New Jersey. Arrested during the first Palmer Raids in November 1919 and deported aboard the Buford on December 21, 1919.

Sources: INS file 54709/357.

Onofry Halevich

Born: Austria-Hungary, year unknown
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Affiliation: Communist Party of America

A member of the Communist Party of America deported on June 8, 1920, reportedly to either Austria or Yugoslavia. No additional biographical information has been located.

Sources: INS file 54325/36G; FBI file BS 202600-33.

Vazil Haluszak (a.k.a. Basil Haluszak; William Halussosek)

Born: Unknown
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Affiliation: Communist Party of America

A member of the Communist Party of America deported on March 2, 1920, to the Galician Soviet Socialist Republic. No additional biographical information has been located.

Sources: INS file 54325/36G; and FBI file BS 202600-33.

Peter Hancharuk

Born: c. 1892, Grodnensky Uyezd, Russia
Nationality: Russian
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Occupation: Laborer
Migration: Immigrated to US 1912
Affiliation: Communist Party of America

Joined the Socialist Party of America in Detroit, and later transferred into the Communist Party of America. Arrested in January 1920 and interned at Fort Wayne. On February 1, 1921, he “voluntarily departed” to Soviet Russia.

Sources: INS file 54859/746.

Stanley Haranin (a.k.a. B. Haranin)

Born: 1894, Vilna, Russia (present-day Lithuania)
Nationality: Russian
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Occupation: Tailor
Migration: Immigrated to US 1913
Affiliation: Communist Party of America

First joined the Socialist Party of America and later became a member of Milwaukee’s Russian Branch No. 1 of the Communist Party of America. Arrested on January 2, 1920, and deported to Russia on March 18, 1921.

Sources: INS file 54809/152

Vasil Haritouchik (a.k.a. Wasil Haryntoczyk; William Hatrinuk; Chartonchak)

Born: 1888, Minsk, Russia (present-day Belarus)
Nationality: Russian
Ethnicity: Belarusian
Occupation: Laborer
Migration: Immigrated to US 1913
Affiliation: Communist Party of America

Joined the Socialist Party of America in 1918 and in 1919 transferred into Russian Branch No. 1 of the Communist Party of America in Detroit. Arrested during the second Palmer Raids in January 1920 and “voluntarily departed” for Russian on October 16, 1920.

Sources: INS file 54859/735; FBI file OG 386253.

Leo Haskevich (a.k.a. Leonti Hackwicz; Leonte Hackewicz; Sittimikoff)

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

No political involvement prior to his emigration from Russia, but joined the Union of Russian Workers in Akron, Ohio, in 1917. Became involved in efforts to organize a strike among Akron rubber workers and was arrested in December 1917. Deported aboard the Buford on December 21, 1919.

Sources: INS file 54235/159.

Ernest Emil Albert Heitmiller (a.k.a. E.A. Heitmiller)

Born: 1887, Linden-Limmer, Germany
Nationality: German
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Occupation: Sailor; lumber worker
Migration: Immigrated to US 1914 via Canada
Affiliation: IWW

Entered the United States in 1914 via Canada without inspection. Worked as a sailor and lumber worker and became active in the Industrial Workers of the World, eventually serving as a delegate and organizer. Arrested in Seattle in February 1919 and deported on January 7, 1920.

He afterward wrote of his experiences as a passenger aboard the SS Mongolia: “It was a bad trip, as the ship had no accommodations for the many passengers…Several died on the journey and it is a wonder that no contagious sickness developed.”

Sources: INS file 54645/435; FBI file OG 347306; New Solidarity, March 6, 1920.

Peter Herasevich (or Gerasevich)

Born: 1892, Kobryn, Russia (present-day Belarus)
Nationality: Russian
Ethnicity: Belarusian
Occupation: Pipe inspector
Migration: Immigrated to US 1913
Affiliation: Union of Russian Workers

His wife and son remained in Russia when he emigrated. In January 1919 he joined the Youngstown, Ohio branch of the Union of Russian Workers. Arrested during the first Palmer Raids in November 1919 while on strike from the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company and deported aboard the Buford on December 21, 1919.

Sources: INS file 54709/513.

José Ángel Hernández

Born: 1885, Tepic, Mexico
Nationality: Mexican
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Occupation: Bricklayer; carpenter
Migration: Immigrated to US year unkown
Affiliation: Partido Liberal Mexicano; IWW; Socialist Party of America

By 1906 he was living in Los Angeles, where he became a member of the PLM-affiliated Grupo Reforma, Libertad y Justicia. By 1911 he was in Houston, Texas, serving as head of the PLM-affiliated Grupo Regeneración Solidaridad Obrera. He joined the IWW in 1913. In 1914 he married fellow PLM member Elisa Alemán, and their daughter Emancipación was born later that year. In 1915 he became an organizer for the Socialist Party’s Land League of Texas and was active in the PLM-affiliated Grupo Germinal in San Antonio. A second daughter, Susana, was born in 1916, after which Hernández separated from Alemán. In 1917 he was active in the Grupo Solidaridad in Houston and founded a mixed local of the IWW there, serving as its secretary. Arrested on August 22, 1917, for IWW organizing and illegally deported to Mexico on August 31, 1917, by an agent of the Bureau of Investigation.

Back in Mexico, Hernández was active with the IWW and the Casa del Obrero Mundial in Tampico ,and joined the anarchist Hermanos Rojos, becoming a regular contributor to their paper Germinal. In January 1918 he was elected general secretary of the Casa del Obrero Mundial in Tampico, though by March he was no longer affiliated with Hermanos Rojos. He cofounded and edited the newspaper Fuerza y Cerebro and was arrested in August 1918 for his organizing activities. In 1919 began writing for the anarchist newspaper Luz! and was arrested again as a leader of an oil workers’ strike in Tampico. In March 1920 he founded the Liga Socialista in Tampico, which endorsed electoral participation. Arrested 1921 for assisting with an IWW strike and later accused of mismanaging funds raised for a publication project. He subsequently disappeared, with some rumors suggesting he traveled to Soviet Russia.

Sources: FBI Mexican Files 232-84 and 232-2971; El Heraldo de México, May 13, 1919; Steve Rossignol, “A Forgotten Wobbly: José Ángel Hernández Across Two Nations,” Anarcho-Syndicalist Review, Summer 2024.

Jacob Heroch (or Horoch)

Born: Russia, year unknown
Nationality: Russian
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Affiliation: Unknown

Included on a list of radicals deported to Soviet Russia on December 23, 1920. No further biographical information has been located.

Sources: INS file 54325/36G.

Christopher Hetaguroff

Born: Terskoy, Caucasus, Russia
Nationality: Russian
Ethnicity: Armenian
Occupation: Laborer
Migration: Immigrated to Canada 1913; then to US 1915
Affiliation: Communist Party of America

Joined the Society for the Relief of Russia, then in 1919 joined the Communist Party in Seattle and was elected secretary of his branch. Arrested in January 1920, and immigration authorities issued a deportation warrant describing him as both an anarchist and “likely to become a public charge,” arguing that this charge was “borne out by the fact that thru his radical activities and membership he is now a public charge in the jail at Seattle, Wash.” Hetaguroff protested the designation, stating, “I would not become a public charge; I can work.” Deported aboard the SS Stockholm on January 22, 1921.

Sources: INS file 54861/48; Ancestry.com.

John Charles Hicke (or Kicke; a.k.a. Kurowsky)

Born: 1882, Bukovina, Austria-Hungary (present-day Romania)
Nationality: Romanian
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Occupation: Laborer
Migration: Immigrated to US 1913 via Canada
Affiliations: Unknown

Arrested in April 1918 in Oxford, Mississippi, and interned as an alien enemy at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, where he remained for nearly two years before being transferred to immigration custody. During detention, Hicke 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.” Later, however, he claimed these statements were a strategy to expedite his deportation. He repeatedly petitioned U.S. and Austrian officials to hasten his removal. Deported to Romania on June 29, 1920.

Sources: INS file 54861/404.