Editing League of Nations (section)

===Liberia===
Following accusations of forced labour on the large American-owned [[Firestone Tire and Rubber Company|Firestone]] rubber plantation and American accusations of slave trading, the Liberian government asked the League to launch an investigation.{{sfn|Miers|2003|pp=140–141}} The resulting commission was jointly appointed by the League, the United States, and Liberia.{{sfn|Miers|2003|p=188}} In 1930, a League report confirmed the presence of slavery and forced labour. The report implicated many government officials in the selling of contract labour and recommended that they be replaced by Europeans or Americans, which generated anger within Liberia and led to the resignation of President [[Charles D. B. King]] and his vice-president. The Liberian government outlawed forced labour and slavery and asked for American help in social reforms.{{sfn|Miers|2003|p=188}}<ref>{{cite journal|first=W.E. Burghardt|last=Du Bois|title=Liberia, the League and the United States|journal=Foreign Affairs|volume=11|date= July 1933|pages=682–95|issue=4|doi=10.2307/20030546|jstor=20030546}}</ref>