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 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.