 Discussions lingered on within the Lucerne International, but after communist sportsmen had made a public protest at a German Workers Sports Festival in Karlsbad in 1924, it was decided that the Sportintern would be barred from the Workers Olympiad.Likewise SASI barred its affiliates for participating in the 1928 Spartakiad organised by Sportintern.Politically, SASI was supported by the International Federation of Trade Unions and the Labour and Socialist International.