Joseph Jacob Mereto was a writer on American politics in the last early-century. The book was first published by The National Historical Society in 1920. Mereto was also author of The I.W.W (1919), Monkey craze (1925) and The socialist conspiracy against religion (1919).

His writings was considered as examples of extreme hate literature by some critics, because of the author's consistency in condemning bolshevikist tendencies and movement in the U.S.

Author's note quoted from the Introduction:

At the very beginning of this work the author wishes to express his heartfelt sympathy for poor men and women who are treated unjustly by employers as well as with all who receive too small a recompense for their wearisome labors. It is, indeed, a source of deep regret to us that in consequence of injustice and uncharitableness, there are to be found in this rich republic numbers of our fellow-countrymen, not merely men and women but even innocent little children, who can scarcely relieve the pangs of their hunger by the coarsest kinds of food and have naught but rags for clothes and huts for homes. Feeling deep concern for these poor people, and for all who suffer either from employers or from defects of government, we trust that“The Red Conspiracy”will not only help toward remedying many of the evils that now weigh heavily upon the working class, but help to avert the far more dreadful evils that would result from the adoption of Bolshevism and I. W. W.'ism.