This concerns the question whether trade rules should be used to promote minimum labour standards in exporting countries. Like other new trade issues, it has actually been around for some time. The 1919 Constitution of the ILO had the adoption and promotion of labour standards as a main objective. Some consider that the concept of fair labour standards derives from Article 23(a) of the Covenant of the League of Nations in which members endeavored to secure and maintain fair and humane conditions of labour for men, women and children, both in their own countries and in all countries to which their commercial and Industrial relations extend. In 1943, the ILO recommended that wherever existing conditions are unsatisfactory, there should be arrangements to ensure that labour employed in the production of controlled commodities receive fair remuneration and adequate social security protection and that other conditions of employment are satisfactory. Some of the international commodity arrangements contain provisions exhorting members to promote fair labour standards. See: Child labour; Core labour standards; Social clause; Social dumping; Social subsidies