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Social Problems

The League of Nations blacklisted large German, Dutch, French and Swiss companies which ere involved in the illegal drug trade. It closed down four big Swiss companies that were selling drugs. The League also freed 200,000 slaves in British-owned Sierra Leone, and organized raids against slave owners and slave traders in Burma. It also challenged the use of forced labour to build the Tanganyika railway in Africa. At first, the death rate of African workers was 50%. After, the death rate among workers went down to 4%. Areas where the League could not remove social injustice, kept careful records of what was going on, and provided information on problems such as drug trafficking, prostitution and slavery. The League also sent economics experts to help Austria and Hungary.