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clubs and societies under a unitary state-wide
organization. In 1957, the responsibility for the
training of the youth and others, as well as for the
development of sports, was entrusted to the
Czechoslovak Physical Training Union.
This supreme body lays down uniform
principles for all physical-training activities in
sports clubs, at schools, as also in the Socialist
Union of Youth (the unified Czechoslovak youth
organization), in works’ clubs of the
Revolutionary Trade Union Movement, in the
Union for Cooperation with the Army, etc. It also
concerns itself with scientific and research
activities in the sphere of physical training, the
education of physical-training workers, e.g.,
instructors and coaches, and ensures that they
are given coaching assignments wherever this is
expedient, promotes international sports
contacts and sees to plan-based construction of
physical training facilities and to their full
utilization.
Being a voluntary social organization, the
Czechoslovak Physical Training. Union is
affiliated to the National Front. Its activities are
governed by its own organizational rules
approved by its Congress. There are national
physical-training organizations in the Czech
Socialist Republic and in the Slovak Socialist
Republic. District, regional and central
committees set up auxiliary bodies charged with
directing the individual spheres of sporting
activities.
The primary organizations of the
Czechoslovak Physical Training Union are
associations which are set up among separate
communities. The main task of the associations
is to organise physical training, sporting and
tourist activities, and according to local

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