Date:    1/5/98  3:13 PM
Subject: s7-25-97

I am writing this email concerning rule S7-25-97 (the stockholder gag rule). 
The following is the information I received regarding this rule:
he Securities and Exchange Commission is considering a rule that would 
prevent many stockholder initiatives from being deliberated and voted 
upon at open stockholder meetings.  Key among the stockholder motions 
that would be outlawed are those that affect women.  This proposed 
rule would prevent many motions and information on issues including 
fair employment practices (such as sex and race discrimination and 
harassment) from being brought to stockholders' attention.  The rule 
would also prevent questions on gender balancing boards, the use of 
child labor, and other ways that employees, investors and customers 
force corporations to clean up their acts when they have refused to 
act on their own.
     
I consider that stockholders should have the full amount of information 
available to them, so that they can vote based on this information. Without 
being aware of the possible grave injustices-such information being withheld, 
they would not be able to make their decision based on full knowledge, thereby 
allowing other people to manipulate the outcome.

Susan Molloy