{"value"=>"<p>Advocating for the rights of organized labor was one of the mainstays of NFCL activities, including retaining the gains made by minorities during the war years, defending government workers from anti-communist witch-hunts, and preserving the Wagner Act from the encroachments of anti-labor legislation like the Smith-Connally bill, the John Kerr Amendment and the Taft-Hartley law which eventually passed in 1947. Included in the Labor subseries is one file on the Dies and Kerr Committees' investigations of federal government employees Robert Morss Lovett, Goodwin Watson and William Dodd, who were purged by a Congressional rider to an appropriations bill signed by President Roosevelt in 1943; clipping files on anti-labor initiatives; pro-labor documentation from the C.I.O. Political Action Committee and about the Ives-Quinn bill in the New York State Senate; and NFCL publications in support of labor.</p>"}