Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-05
M NECESSARY TO AN UNDERSTANDING LEAGUE OF NATIONS ISSUE

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Members of the League, be explicitly defined
in each case by the Council.
A permanent Commission shall be consti-
tuted to receive and examine the annual
ports OF the Manufactures and to advise the
Council on all matters relating to the observ-
ance of the mandates.
ARTICLE q.
Subject to and in accordance with the pro-
visions of international conventions existing or
hereafter to be agreed upon, the Members of
the League:
(a) will endeavor to secure and maintain
fair and humane conditions of labor
for men, women and children, both in
their own countries and in all coun-
tries to which their commercial and
industrial relations extend, and for
that purpose will establish and main
tain the necessary international
CARNATIONS;
(b) undertake to secure Just treatment of
the native inhabitants of territories
under their control;
(c) VIII intrust the League with the general
supervision over the execution of
agreements with regard to the traffic
in women and children and the traffic
IN opium and other dangerous drugs
I'D will intrust the League with the general
supervision OF the trade in arms and
ammunition with the countries in
which the control of this traffic is
necessary in the common interest;
(e) will make provision to secure and main
tam freedom of communications and
of transit and equitable treatment for
the commerce of all Members of the
League. In this connection, the spe-
eial necessities of the regions devas-
tated during the war of l9l4-l9lS
shall be borne in mind;
" Will endeavor to take steps in matters
of international concern for the pre-
vention and control of disease.
ARTICLE "a.
There shall be placed under the direction
OF the League all international bureaus already
established by general treaties if the parties to
bureaus and all commissions for the regulation
OF matters of international interest hereafter
constituted shall be placed under the direction
of the League.
In all matters of international interest
which are regulated by general conventions but
which are not placed under the control of inter.
national bureaus or commissions. the Secre.
tariat OF the League shall, subject to the con,
sent OF the Council and if desired by the parties
collect and distribute all relevant information
and shall render any other assistance which
may be necessary or desirable.
Inc council may include as part of the
expenses OF the Secretarat the expenses of
any bureau or commission which is placed
unoer the direction OF the League.
ARTICLE Is.
The Members of the League agree to en-.
courage and promote the establishment and CO.
operation of duly authorized voluntary national
Ked Cross organizations having as purposes
the improvement of health, the prevention of
disease and the mitigation of suffering through
out the world ~
ARTICLE rs
~ Amendments to this Covenant will take
effect when ratified by the Members of the
league whose Representatives. compose the
Council and by majority of the Members of
the League whose Representatives comnose
the Assembly.
No such amendment shall bind any Mem
per OF the League which signifies its dissent
therefrom, but in that case il shall cease tn he
a Member of the League ~