Biography
Vasiliy Balik was born in Kiev, Russia (present-day Ukraine). Worked as a laborer. Immigrated to the United States in 1913.
Employee of Remington Arms Union Metallic Cartridge Company, in Bridgeport, Connecticut. In August 1919 he joined the Union of Russian Workers and was arrested the following month in Hartford. Deported on the Buford on December 21, 1919.
The congressional digest of Buford deportation cases lists Wasily Balick as arrested in Hartford, Connecticut on November 26, 1919. This is the digest’s immigration-arrest entry; it does not establish an uninterrupted period of detention.
Congressional hearings, April 21–24, 1920, Appendix B, printed p. 151.
