SLAVERY CONVENTION.
Albaxia. Germany, Austria, Belgium, thc British Empire, Canada, the Commokwealth of AusTRALiA. the Union of South Africa, the Dominion of Ne^v Zealand. and India, Bulgaria. China, Colombia, Cuba. Denmark, Spain. Estonia. Abyssinia, Finland, France, Greece] ITALY. Latvia, Liberia, Lithuania. Norway, Panama, the Xetherlands, Persia. Roland ! Portugal. Roumania. the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovènes. Sweden. Czecho-SLOVAKIA and Uruguay.
Wherta.^ ilie signatoiiu^ ol tiic CiciKial Act thc Briissels Conférence of 1889-90 dedatcd that they wcrc oqit illv nnimnted by thc lirm intention of putting an r-u ! tlu> tr iHk in African slaves ;
VVliercas the signatories of the Convention of Saint Gcrmain-en-Laye of 1919 to révise thc General Act of Berlin of 1885 and the General Act and Déclaration of Brusscls of 1890 affirmcd their intention of securing the complète suppression of slavery in ail its fonns and of thc slave trade by land and sea ;
Taking into considération the report of thc Temporary Slavery Commission appointcd by the Council of the League of Nations on June I2th, 1924 ; Desiring to complète and extend thc work accomplishcd under thc Bnissels Act and to lind a mcans of giving practical effect throughout thc world to such intentions îis were expressed in regard to slave trade and slavery by thc signatories of the Convention of Saint Gcrmain-en-Layc, and rccognising that it is necessary’to concludc to that end more detailed arrangements than are contained in that Convention ;
Considcring, moreovcr, that it is necessary to prcvcnt forced labour from developing into conditions analogous to slavery ;
Have decided to conclude a Convention and have accordingly appointcd as their Plenipotentiaries :
