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iiriuatrlal Hygiene Digest - 7 August, 1949 646 Longshoremen's and HarborWorkera 'Compensation Act--Cllgft>lng of Ladder to Leave Hold Following Heart Attack aa Cause of Death--Accldental Injury. Medical evidence aupported the commissioner'a finding that after Buffering a heart attack the deceased climbed a 50-foot perpendicular ladder, the only means of exit ftpam the hold In vhlch he was vorklng, and that this exertion vas the cause of his death 15 minutes later. Such an overstraining Of the workman's powers, when the required exertion Is too great for the man undertaking the work, constitutes an accidental Injury; the source of the force producing the Injury need not he external. Judg ment upholding an award of death benefits vas affirmed. Southern Stevedoring Co., Inc. v. Henderson. United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Wo. 12,707. July 14, 1949. --CCH 847 Silicosis--"01ft Payments"--Statute of LImitation--'Ditty Rule "--Compu tation of Award. Where an employer Is aware that an employee has contracted slllcoala, continues to employ him at a reduced wage, and after the employee Is un able to work any longer, makes weekly payments vhlch he calls "gifts" until a length of time In excess of the period of the statute of limitations has elapsed, a finding that these "gifts" were In reality compensation payments and as such did not toll the statute will be affirmed If supported by sufficient competent evidence. In computing the award, the employer vas allowed a credit for only the compensation payments made (which In cluded the "gift" payments) since the "Ditty Buie" was held Inapplicable as the employer reduced the caspensatIon of the employee upon continuing his employment after the discovery that the employee had contracted sili cosis. American Radiator A Standard Sanitary Corp. v. Crawford. Kentucky Court of Appeals._ June 21, 1949 --CCH Books, Pamphlets and notices ->8 Bottom-tip Management People Working Together. W.B. Given, Jr. Harper A Brothers, Hew York. 171 PP. (1949) Price $2.50. The author has previously outlined the principles of "bottom-up management" and briefly described Its practice In his company. (See IHF Abstract Bo. 716, June, 1949). 2hle book deals more extensively with the same subjects. The first section entitled "Freedom within Management", emphasizes sharing responsibility, careful selection of men in n.lhorlty, knowing people In the organization, open discussion of Ideas, and freedom to fall. It Is also pointed out that sometimes a top-down push Is nec essary. Ihe second section, "The Competition of the Possibles", with the foreword fromFrancle Bacon: "It would be unsound and contradictory to ex pect that things vhlch have never yet been done, can be done, except by