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| - Workers' sports evolved very rapidly in the 1920s. In 1928 the first ice hockey teams of workers were established. They belonged to the Arbeiterbund für Sport und Körperkultur in Österreich (ASKÖ; in English, Workers' Union of Sports and Physical Culture in Austria), which was founded in 1924. The middle classes took little notice of this activity. The second SLSI Winter Olympiad was held in Mürzzuschlag, Austria. The Austrian selection won the tournament by defeating Germany and Latvia. In the SportTagblatt newpsaper, the results were briefly listed, which was an exception, as the daily games of the workers were never reported by the paper. The SportTagblatt later noted that the Austrian ice hockey team of the workers would be participating in the Latvian Workers' Winter Sports Festival on February 17 and 18, 1934, in Riga. At Engelmann-Platz on January 24, 1934, there was to be a selection of the best hockey players from the workers organizations. The magazine of the Austrian Ice Hockey Federation, Der Eishockeysport, also reported once on the growth of workers ice hockey. By contrast, reported the Arberteirzeitung newspaper from Vienna regularity reported on the workers games. With the ban on the Social Democratic Labour Party in Austria in February 1934, all connected social democratic umbrella organizations of sport, etc. were prohibited. So all workers hockey teams ceased to exist. Some of the workers clubs were later re-founded under different names.
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