MARTHA (alabami)

Race #1264

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Official speed 39.61 wpm (110.28 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start August 28, 2009 12:35:41am UTC
Race Finish August 28, 2009 12:37:31am UTC
Outcome No win (2 of 4)
Points 0.00
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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.