Life (f_m_l)

Race #409

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Official speed 79.54 wpm (54.92 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start April 10, 2014 4:49:23am UTC
Race Finish April 10, 2014 4:50:18am UTC
Outcome No win (3 of 5)
Opponents 2. sameerrajimwale (82.44 wpm)
5. aurash (71.45 wpm)
Accuracy 90.0%
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.