The Work of the League of Nation's Agencies - Conflict and Tension

Question 1

International Labour Organisation (ILO)

Answer 1

aim = to improve working conditions

-> success = in the 1920s, the death rate of workers on the Tanganyika railway was reduced from 50% to 4%
-> failure = in 1919, most member countries refused to ban children under 14 from working as they felt it would be too expensive for businesses

Question 2

Slavery Commission

Answer 2

aim = to end slavery

-> success = during the 1920s the league freed 200,000 enslaved people in Sierra Leonne

Question 3

Commission for Refugees

Answer 3

aim = to help people who had been made homeless by war or had no safe place to live

-> success = helped free 427,000 of the 500,000 soldiers who were still imprisoned at the end of WW1
-> failure = during the 1930 they failed to help Jews trying to free Nazi Germany

Question 4

Health Organisation

Answer 4

aim = to cure disease

-> success = send doctors to help in Turkish refugee camps and cure yellow fever and malaria

Question 5

Narcotics Board

Answer 5

aim = stop the illegal drugs trade

-> success = exposed four large companies involved in the illegal drugs trade
-> failure = 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

aim = to improve how countries communicated

-> success = introduced shipping lanes and international highway code

Question 7

Economic and Financial Committee

Answer 7

aim = to improve living conditions

-> success = sent advisers to Austria and Hungary to help rebuild their economies when they went bankrupt in 1923