Recursively removing color labels in one go?

Does anyone know a way to recursively remove color labels within a massive folder? Deep, deep nests exist in there and descending up and down the tree could take forever. Is there a way to select the top level folder and make all files and folders that have been color labelled to be reset to no color? The only way I have of doing it right now is to Find by label color, then select all files, then remove color, then move on to the next color....
Message was edited by: Maxplanar

Open the AppleScript Editor in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder, select the folder in the Finder, and run:
tell application "Finder"
set label index of every item of entire contents of (selection as alias) to 0
end tell
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