The Volcano (1919)

Ruth Carroll a schoolteacher in New Yorks Lower East Side meets Bolshevist Alexis Minski at her grandfathers bookstore After Ruth complains to her superintendent about undernourished schoolchildren Minskis ravings cause her suspension and she joins the Reds Meanwhile Captain Nathan Levison returning from the Argonne is assigned by the Secret Service to investigate New Yorks radicals While visiting the Carrolls to announce the imminent arrival of Ruths brother Davy who saved Levisons life but lost his foot Levison falls in love with Ruth Chagrined Minski convinces Ruth that Levison plans to arrest her and her grandfather whereupon Ruth furiously requests that Levison be killed After Governor Alfred E Smith signs a bill making it illegal to display the Red flag the Bolshevists plot to assassinate him the Mayor of Seattle and Attorney General Alexander Palmer but Davy with other soldiers break up the meeting