Nicolson (neosmith)

Race #4183

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Official speed 70.92 wpm (61.59 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start October 5, 2010 3:34:37pm UTC
Race Finish October 5, 2010 3:35:38pm UTC
Outcome Win (1 of 4)
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.