Biography
Josip Vargo was a Croatian-speaking steelworker born in 1881 in Zákány, Austria-Hungary, in present-day Hungary. He grew up in Croatia and immigrated to the United States in 1913 while his wife and three children remained there. Vargo joined the South Slavic branch of the Socialist Party in Youngstown, Ohio, in 1916, transferred to the Communist Party in 1919, and participated in the 1919 steel strike at Youngstown Sheet and Tube. Federal authorities arrested him in February 1920 and deported him to Yugoslavia on September 1, 1920.
