Document B: Evening Missourian This article was written by United Press, a national news agency . It appeared on January 3, 1920 in The Evening Missourian, a newspaper in Columbia , Missouri. REVOLUTION IS PREVENTED Radical Elements Were on the Verge of Fusion, Intending to Elect Bolshevist Candidate Next President and Set Up Soviet Government Forty-five hundred radicals, both men and women, most of them members of the communist and communist labor parties were arrested last night and early today in a nation-wide roundup by federal authorities. The raids, according to the Department of Justice agents, averted a move to establish a soviet government in the United States.

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Document B: Evening Missourian This article was written by United Press, a national news agency . It appeared on January 3, 1920 in The Evening Missourian, a newspaper in Columbia , Missouri. REVOLUTION IS PREVENTED Radical Elements Were on the Verge of Fusion, Intending to Elect Bolshevist Candidate Next President and Set Up Soviet Government Forty-five hundred radicals, both men and women, most of them members of the communist and communist labor parties were arrested last night and early today in a nation-wide roundup by federal authorities. The raids, according to the Department of Justice agents, averted a move to establish a soviet government in the United States.

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Summary: On January 3, 1920, federal authorities conducted nationwide raids, arresting 4,500 radicals, predominantly members of communist and communist labor parties. The Department of Justice stated that these actions prevented the formation of a Soviet government in the United States, as the radicals were allegedly on the brink of fusion to elect a Bolshevist candidate as the next president.

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