ABSTRACT
Many decades have passed since the death of the League of Nations, but one of its agencies set up in 1919, the International Labour Organisation, still continues, and is very active today. Labour scandals are a prominent part of the history of colonial rule. In Great Britain there were public scandals at the height of the colonial era about recruitment of Indian coolies, about Chinese coolies on the Rand, about ‘Blackbirders’ in Australia, and about many other cases of exploitation of individuals in many regions of the world. Protests were also made against similar abuses in French Equatorial Africa and against the deadly use of forced labour there for the building of the railway from Brazzaville to Pointe Noire.
