workin (woodwheel)

Race #1109

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Official speed 87.13 wpm (50.13 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start December 18, 2011 3:30:35pm UTC
Race Finish December 18, 2011 3:31:25pm UTC
Outcome Win (1 of 2)
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.