lock for assistance is the profits of the firms which continue to do business, i.e. the profits of the nucleus firms ought to be pooled over the whole industry. 3. If this is accepted, the next step is to consider how to prepare a workable scheme. It would seem that the best hope of achieving a satisfactory arrangement is to get some form of cartelization carried out by the industry itself, but it would probably be necessary to provide some statutory backing, perhaps by means of a Treasury Charges Order.