Agencies

Question 1

International Labour Organisation (ILO)

Answer 1

• to improve working conditions
• in the 1920s, the death rate of workers on the Tanganyika railway was reduced from 50% to 4%
• in 1919 most member countries refused to ban children under 14 from working as they felt it would be too expensive for business

Question 2

Slavery Commission

Answer 2

• end slavery
• during the 1920s the league freed 200,000 enslaved people in Sierra Leonne

Question 3

Commission for Refugees

Answer 3

• help people who had been made homeless by war or had no safe place to live
• helped free 427,000 of the 500,000 soldiers who were still imprisoned at the end of WWI
• during the 1930s they failed to help Jews trying to flee Nazi Germany

Question 4

Health Organisation

Answer 4

• cure disease
• sent doctors to help in Turkish refugee camps

Question 5

Narcotics Board

Answer 5

• stop illegal drugs trade
• exposed 4 large companies involved in illegal drugs trade
• some countries in the League did not want to stop the trade in opium as they made too much money from it

Question 6

Organisation for Communications and Transport

Answer 6

• improve how countries communicated
• introduced shipping lanes and international Highway Code

Question 7

Economic and Financial Committee

Answer 7

• improve living conditions
• sent advisers to Austria and Hungary to help rebuild their economies when they went bankrupt in 1923