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Union of Cooperatives for pulp to soup was established in October 1920 and was owned by 40 cooperatives. He was born (like others of the time) to cope with the economic difficulties suffered the industrial proletariat. Solidarity and mutual assistance as premise, cooperatives became prime social institutions and organized consumption, production and credit of thousands of working families in pursuit of the principles of economic democracy. Initially, emphasizing workers' cooperatives of consumption, consumer associations that suppressed bourgeois middlemen bought wholesale commodities to get better conditions of quality and price, and then distributed among family members. With joint purchasing surplus, developed social welfare, cultural and educational: schools; provident fund for illness, old age or death; Boxes resistance to strikes; and health insurance companies. From the formula self-management, cooperatives improved the lives of its members, all aspiring capitalist social relations to replace the practice of cooperation.
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