Solomon (inquisitor)

Race #135

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Official speed 102.86 wpm (42.47 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start July 5, 2010 7:23:54pm UTC
Race Finish July 5, 2010 7:24:37pm UTC
Outcome Win (1 of 4)
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.