Chicago stockyard workers win 8-hour day - 1918

Sam Walton, founder of the huge and bitterly anti-union Wal-Mart empire, born in Kingfisher, Oklahoma. He once said that his priority was to “Buy American,” but Wal-Mart is now the largest U.S. importer of foreign-made goods—often produced under sweatshop conditions - 1918

Trial of 101 Wobblies, charged with opposing the draft and hindering the war effort, begins in Chicago - 1918