Amalgamated Society of Steel and Iron Workers of Great Britain Amalgamated Society of Steel and Iron Workers of Great Britain The Amalgamated Society of Steel and Iron Workers of Great Britain was a trade union representing workers in iron- and steelworks, principally in Scotland. The union was founded in Glasgow in 1888 and was originally named the Associated Society of Millmen. John Hodge of the British Steel Smelters Association (BSSA) acted as the union's first secretary, but he stood down a year later, when members elected their own representative, John Cronin. The union grew rapidly, despite charging new members a one-off fee of 5 shillings, membership reaching 3,000 by 1892,
Great Gospel of John and "Neu-Salems-Verlag". Currently it is published by the "Lorber-Verlag", a dedicated publisher based in Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany. Engel's addendum was published by C. F. Landbeck and "Lorber Verlag" as volume 11. The 1st edition dates to 1871; the 8th edition to 1996. An abbreviated English translation in six volumes has appeared with "Merkur Publishing". Since 2011 a full translation (10 volumes) of the "Great Gospel of John", called "John the Great Gospel", is available from CreateSpace, Amazon.com. E. F. Schumacher wrote about the ten big books of the Great Gospel: "(They) contain many strange things which are unacceptable to the modern