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League's Humanitarian Work
REFUGEE ORGANISATION
Faced the problem of World War One about prisoners-of-war stranded in Soviet Russia, Poland, France, Germany and Turkey
Fridtjof Nansen and his staff worked alongside the Red Cross and helped 425 000 displaced persons
Methods used by Nansen
finding suitable transport
setting up camps
creating new settlements
teaching new and skills
Triumph brought praise and thanks for the work of the League.
INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANISATION
Main: objective: improve the working conditions
Collected data of employment, health and safety
series of recommendations
8 hours working day and 48 hours a week
Annual holidays with pay
Right to join trade unions
Employment age
Minimum wages
sickness and unemployment insuarance and pensions
-Britain and the USA against these recommendations
Eventually it was impossible to ignore this recommendations
1920s: really successful
SLAVERY COMMISSION
-Objective: stamp out slavery and slave dealing together with other exploitative practices.
-Methods: persistent enquiry, publication of reports, and the constant coaxing of governments.
-Successions: Tanganyikan railway from 50 percent to 4 percent. A number of countries abolished slavery.
ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL ORGANISATION
-Post WW1
-Austria in danger of financial collapse
-1922, plan for rescuing the economy
-Control the level of interest rates
-Control de circulation of banknotes
-Control the issue of credit
-Loans given to Austria
-Other rescue programmes
DISARMAMENT COMMISSION
Article 8 of the League Covenant : :
Disarm to the lowest point consistant with national safety
Nobody disarm except from the defeated powers
Minor success in 1921 (Washington Naval Conference)
Naval limitation by the USA, Britain, France and Japan
Dissapointing progress
Couldn't convene a World Disarmament Conference because of series of technicalties
Definitions
Classifications
Methods of armament counting
Germany thought there was not real desire from the allies to disarm
HEALTH COMMISSION
Under the ileadership of its Director, Ludwig Rajchman
one of the most successful of the League agencies
It established links with countries such as Germany, Soviet Russia and the USA to provide an information and advice on public health matters
Organised a public education campaign on health and sanitation
developed internationally accepted vaccines
It became the World Health Organisation affiliated to the United Nations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4XxTkePm1Q
