The association's goals included defense of private property rights, improvements to production and processing of agricultural products, wider use of modern agricultural machinery and fertilizers, and wider availability of loans.
[2] In this regard, it closely resembled Žagrė (sokha), an agricultural cooperative that was active before World War I in Marijampolė.
With the Labour Federation losing more than half its seats, the Christian Democratic Bloc lost its majority and control of the government.
Following the December 1926 coup, the ŪS joined the opposition to the Antanas Smetona government, and was subsequently suspended as a political party by decree in 1928.
[5] Association's cooperatives and other agricultural establishments soon became bankrupt due to Smetona's policy.