The Guardian And Evening Star, with which is incorporated the West Coast Times WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1932. SLAVE SUPPRESSION.
Commenting on the decision of the League of Nations assembly to accept the British proposals for the suppression of all forms of slavery throughout the world. A writer says that it is interesting to note that the centenary of the legal abol moii of shivery within the British Empire occurs next year. In this connection it should bo noted that an attempt to end slavery in Liberia, has been in progress at Geneva, where an international conference considered the status of natives of the held in servitude and the steps that are necessary to abolish the practice. About a ye'di’ and a half, ago the results of an international investigation into slave conditions in Liberia were made public, and such a. flood of protest followed that Liberia promised to end the traffic. Complaints have since been made that she has failed to do so, and therefore the Geneva meeting was called to hear charges and suggest remedies. Liberia is considered cue of the prime offenders against the ijeague of Nations’ slavery covenant, but she is not the only one. Slavery exists also in many other nations; though it is illegal practically everywhere, it persists because the laws are not st i lly enforced. The countries, besides Liberia, where slavery is relatively wide pread are China, Arabia and Abyssinia, Accurate
figures on the number of slaves in the world are not available, since the only authoritative sources—the offending countries themselves—ar e naturally reticent or have not made the necessary researches. Bough estimates have been made from time to time, however, and these range from 3.009,OCO to 6,000,000. In September, 1930, Lord Cecil told -the League of Nations Assembly that the number probably was 5,000,000; but th e attention given to the subject since then as a result of the Liberia revelations may have ltd to a substantial d'ecrease. The League of Nations lias assumed the lead in the organised effort to abolish slavery. Since 1922, when it first took up the subject, it has centralised the efforts of its members and obtained their ratifications of the anti-slavery covenant adopted in 1925. This covenant was formulated as a result of the discoveries made by the League’s Temporary Slavery Commission, which reported l that slavery and its accompanying evils existed in nineteen regions of the world. This report led to immediate action on the part of league members to remedy conditions in their own countries and dependencies. In April last the Emperor of Abysihaia promised to free all the 2,000.090 slaves in that country within 15 years.
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443The Guardian And Evening Star, with which is incorporated the West Coast Times WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1932. SLAVE SUPPRESSION. Hokitika Guardian, 19 October 1932, Page 4
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