Liz (eearnest@dcstigers.org)

Race #2679

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Official speed 84.23 wpm (51.86 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start May 25, 2011 7:06:53pm UTC
Race Finish May 25, 2011 7:07:45pm UTC
Outcome No win (2 of 5)
Opponents 1. jackyx5724 (103.40 wpm)
Accuracy 93.0%
Points 0.00
Text #394 (Length: 364 characters)

Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the winter and then laying them off when the work slowed down, Jay had instituted a system of paying workers a steady wage year-round. A 1937 Fortune magazine article about this and other progressive labor policies at Hormel might well shock those familiar only with the company's labor relations in the 1980s.