Biography
Ivan Yatsyshen, also known as John Yatzyshen, was a Ukrainian laborer born around 1898 in Nastasiv, Austria-Hungary, in present-day Ukraine. He immigrated to the United States in 1913, worked for Standard Oil in Buffalo, joined the Socialist Party, and later became secretary of the Communist Party’s East Side Ukrainian Branch. The federal government deported him to Russia on February 1, 1921.
