The League of Nations

• Economic and Financial Commitee - to improve living conditions

  Sent financial advisors to Austria and Hungary to rebuild their economies when they went bankrupt

  Unable to cope with depression of 1929
• International Labour Organisation (ILO) - In the 1920s, death rates of workers on Tanganyika railway decreased from over 50% to 4%

  In 1919, most members refused to stop children under the age of 14 from working as it would be too expensive.
• Organisation for Communications and Transport - aimed to improve how countries worked together

  Introduced shipping lanes and highway code
• Commission for Refugees - Aimed to help people who lost their homes and livelihoods due to the war,by improving refugee camps,helping them to return home or find new homes

  Helped free around 427,000 of the 500,000 POW's after imprisoned after WW1

  Failed to help Jews trying to flee Nazi Germany
• Slavery Commission - aimed to end slavery

  During the 1920s, the League set free 200,000 slaves from Sierra Leone
• Health Organisation - aimed to cure diseases

  Sent Dr's to help in Turkish refugee camps
• Permanent Central Opium Board - aimed to tackle trade of illegal drugs

  Blacklisted 4 large companies involved in illegal drug trading

  Some countries in the League did not want to stop the trade of opium,as they made so much money from it