Orr Farmers' Cooperative Trading Records, 1953-1966
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Orr Farmers' Cooperative Trading Company (Orr, Minn.).
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Central Co-operative Wholesale (U.S.)
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The Central Cooperative Wholesale (Superior, Wis.) was founded in 1917 as the Cooperative Central Exchange. It functioned as a marketing and purchasing agency for farm produce. The Cooperative Central Exchange developed its own line of merchandise during the 1920's, while its membership and sales continued to grow. In the late 1920's, however, a political struggle ensued between Communist and non-Communist members; the cooperative split and the non-Communist faction changed the organization's na...
