The first Labor Day parade, Union Square, September 5, 1882.

Eventually, it became a very successful company, with a huge factory employing over 700 people. According to the&amp;nbsp;International Sewing Machine Collectors' Society&amp;nbsp;(ISMCS), at its peak in 1906 and 1907, the New Home factory churned out 150,000 sewing machines each year. New Home made both hand-crank and treadle machines, purchased primarily for home seamstresses. The ISMCS estimates that there were 7,000,000 New Home sewing machines in operation by the 1930s.  

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