"The League of Nations, created in 1927 and wound up in 1946, left a legacy which had functioned with some efficiency throughout the League's existence, namely its Administrative Tribunal. In addition to serving the League itself, the Tribunal also served the International Labour Organization, which had been in existence since 1919. One positive part of the legacy of the League was to preserve the Tribunal and transfer it, in 1946, to the ILO which became a specialized agency of the newly created United Nations Organization. The ILO, which had been established to define and protect the rights of workers, was the logical destination for the Tribunal, whose mandate was to provide guarantees that the officials employed by the institutions over which it had jurisdiction at that time, viz. the League and the ILO, would enjoy protection against arbitrary acts committed against them by their employer. By the time of its transfer to the ILO, the Tribunal had dealt with 37 cases."