The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-30
U. S. LAWLESSLY
DEPORTS ALIENS
ON FAKE vISAES
Send Russians on False
Passports of Priest
(By Federated Press


WASHINGTON, July 20. - Deliber-
ate defiance of law in the shipping to
Europe of Russian aliens charged with
being Communists and without legal
passports whereby they may be ad-
mitted into Russia, is charged against
the Department of Labor by the Amer
lean Civil Liberties Union, in letter
of protest delivered to Secretary Of
Labor Davis. An unfrocked Ukraini-
an priest named Ivan Ardan, claiming
to represent the "Ukrainian Peoples
Republic (of Petlura) which was sup
pressed four years ago, is the tool
employed in the issuance of these
fake passports. One recent victim was
Grofey Okoletenko, who was sent to
Switzerland and has just returned on
The Leviathan. Another, Michael BIZ
lokunsky, deported to Switzerland on
May "a, is now stranded and starv-
ing in Vienna"
Ex-Priest Faker.
In answer to inquiries by the Civil
Liberties Union, the state department
some time ago formally declared that
1t had not recognized the self-styled
Ukrainian Diplomatic Mission, which
is the name under which Ardan and
various confederates have operated.
The Canadian government has arrest
ed a representative Of this group and
stopped his traffic in worthless pass
ports. The address of Ardan was for
merly 1901 Columbia Road, Washing
ton, and has now been changed to
2507 Brentwood Road, where the ex-
priest refuses to see or talk to the
press.
immigration Head InsoIvent.
when we get fellow that we want
to deport to Russia we send to Ardan
for a passport, and we shall keep on
doing it so long as we choose" was the
belligerent declaration of Inspector
Russell, at the Bureau of Immigration
in the Department of Labor. Russell
claimed to have full authority over
deportation of undesirable aliens.
Don't you know that Ardan is a
fraud, that his government has been
dead for four years past, and that no
body with one of his fake papers can
get into Ukraine or any other part of
Russian" he was asked.
Il don't know as l have to answer
you anything" was the reply. $50
fong as we can get the Swiss consul
general in New York to put a visa on
the passport, it is good enough for
us. The Russian goes to Switzerland,
and that is the lookout of the Swiss
He can't come back here"
Swiss Roumanlans obey U. S.
Nevertheless, Grofey Okoletenko
has come back from Switzerland, and
at the expense of the American gov
eminent. Ardan pocketed the fee for
issuance of a passport. In the same
way, number of victims were sent
to Germany, where they were strand
ed. Some were finally permitted to
enter Russia; others were returned
here. Then the Swiss and Roumani-
an consuls were induced to assist in
the lawbreaking.
The signers of the Civil Liberties
protest letter, the Rev. John Haynes
Holmes and Roger N. Baldwin, state
that hundreds Of Russians, under or
der Of deportation, are at liberty un-
der bonds, awaiting the time when,
by diplomatic recognition of Russia,
the American government can legally
deport them. A. Yazikoff, official Sow
let representative in Canada, warns
all Russian citizens that no passports
issued by Ardan, or by HIS New York
representative, Zahajevich, will be
recognized at the Soviet borders.