Arthur Katzes

AKA: or Katses; Kestes
Released
Date of birth:1897
Era:1910s
Support
Anarchism Union of Russian Workers
Arthur Katzes

Biography

Arthur Katzes was born 1897 in Podolia, Russia (present-day Ukraine). Worked as a printer.

Had been a student in Russia and was apprenticing as a pressman before working as a sailor to finance his passage to the United States in 1914. Around 1917, he joined the Union of Russian Workers and became a member of the editorial board of its newspaper, Khleb i Volia. He was arrested in New York in March 1919 and released on bail. While at liberty, he collaborated in producing the illegal Anarchist Soviet Bulletin. In September 1919, he was arrested again, together with Ethel Bernstein, for distributing copies of that publication. He was deported to Russia aboard the Buford on December 21, 1919.

Adapted from Kenyon Zimmer, Red Scare Deportees (kenyonzimmer.com), compiled from INS deportation case files.

Case

Charges: Administrative deportation under the wartime Immigration Acts — expelled as an alien radical (Union of Russian Workers member) in the First Red Scare.
Arrested: March 1919
In exile since: Dec 21, 1919
Sentence: Deported to Soviet Russia aboard the Buford transport on December 21, 1919. Arrested in March 1919; the source mentions release on bail or bond during the proceedings, so no continuous imprisonment span is counted. Charges as recorded: Administrative deportation under the wartime Immigration Acts — expelled as an alien radical (Union of Russian Workers member) in the First Red Scare. Documented in Kenyon Zimmer’s Red Scare Deportees index, drawn from INS deportation files.

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