 Siemens continued catalyzing community action by helping groups to form study clubs similar to those that were organized by the Antigonish Movement and Moses Coady.And he was active in starting up the Winkler Co-op Creamery and the Altona Co-op Vegetable Oils (1944).Beginning in 1941, Siemens also served as the first president of the Federation of Southern Manitoba Co-operatives.