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¶ A "labor holiday," incomplete version of a General Strike, was engineered in Lansing, Mich. Spark for this was the arrest of six men and two women for picketing the Capitol City Wrecking Co. Industrial plants shut down as 12,000 workers marched out. Chain and department stores were closed. Taxi drivers and city bus employes walked out. In front of the State Capitol and elsewhere automobiles were parked side by side blocking all traffic. Mobs paraded through the streets, directed only by union organizers. Banks refused to do business because they had no police protection. Governor Murphy who had been out of town came back to his Capital and chaos. He promised to investigate whether the pickets had been unjustly arrested. On the outskirts of Lansing, a group of State College students found union organizers trying to close business houses, promptly set upon them, threw eight into the Red Cedar River.