Biography
Named as Alex Kisil in the IWW’s partial Red Special deportation-detention roster. The report says the group left Seattle February 6, 1919 and arrived at Ellis Island February 11. It does not individually establish a final release or deportation. This establishes actual U.S. immigration custody connected with IWW repression, not a criminal conviction or proof that deportation was ultimately carried out. Original arrest date and full detention duration unknown. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/one-big-union-monthly/v02n06-jun-1920_One%20Big%20Union.pdf#page=39
The individual federal summary for file 54379/425 records Alex Kisil arrested at Seattle on May 5, 1918. Deportation to Austria was ordered December 2, 1918, but no completed deportation is established. After transfer to Ellis Island, bond release was authorized July 22, 1919. A December 2, 1919 letter explicitly states that Kisil had actually been released on bond some months earlier. This confirms release while leaving its exact day and complete detention duration unknown; July 22 is not treated as a proven physical discharge date. Source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/Hearings_before_the_Committee_on_Immigration_and_Naturalization_-_H._of_R.%2C_66th_Congress_%28IA_cu31924051624827%29.pdf#page=641
The individual federal summary for file 54379/425 records Alex Kisil arrested at Seattle on May 5, 1918. Deportation to Austria was ordered December 2, 1918, but no completed deportation is established. After transfer to Ellis Island, bond release was authorized July 22, 1919. A December 2, 1919 letter explicitly states that Kisil had actually been released on bond some months earlier. This confirms release while leaving its exact day and complete detention duration unknown; July 22 is not treated as a proven physical discharge date.
