L. A. Phroaig (laphroaig_neat)

Race #4990

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Official speed 92.99 wpm (46.97 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start December 30, 2015 6:05:22pm UTC
Race Finish December 30, 2015 6:06:09pm UTC
Outcome No win (2 of 2)
Accuracy 97.0%
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.