Subject: s7-25-97

					Dr. Deirdre Lashgari
					California State Polytechnic University, Pomona 
					3801 W. Temple Avenue
					Pomona, California 91768
					fax: 310-204-6226
					e-mail: delashgari@csupomona.edu

					January 3, 1998
     
Arthur Levitt
Securities and Exchange Commission
450 5th Street, NW
Washington, DC  20549
     
Dear Arthur Levitt:
     
Please act immediately to prevent imposition of the proposed 
stockholder's gag rule.
     
I am appalled that such an undemocratic, un-American rule would even be 
considered.
     
Please exert all your authority and leadership to expose this rule for 
the danger it poses to genuine democracy, the right of 
citizen-stockholders to speak their concerns and inform other 
stockholders about issues of urgent concern.  
     
If this rule were to go through, it would give the American people the 
impression that the SEC protects corporations and big money only, and 
opposes freedom of expression as well as workers' rights and human 
rights.  The stockholders' gag rule would be particularly detrimental to 
the efforts of employees, investors, and customers as well as 
stockholders to improve employment practices affecting women and 
minorities.  
     
The most immediate issue that would be affected is the widespread effort 
to end child labor in U.S. factories in the developing world.  
     
I'm sure you can understand how urgent it is that you do everything in 
your power to oppose this proposed rule, to make it clear that the SEC 
is not in fact simply an apologist for corporate interests.
     
I deeply appreciate your help in this issue.
     
Sincerely yours,
     
     
     
Deirdre Lashgari