Jake (aurelias)

Race #2896

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Official speed 97.74 wpm (44.69 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start May 9, 2015 1:44:18am UTC
Race Finish May 9, 2015 1:45:02am UTC
Outcome Win (1 of 3)
Opponents 3. marswork (79.17 wpm)
Accuracy 96.0%
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.