From: john hampton [johnh@ualocal166.org]
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 3:50 PM
To: rulecomments@sec.gov
Subject: Proxy Voting Disclosure File No. S7-36-02

Dear Commissioners,
	My name is John Hampton and I am a trustee on the Local 166 Pension Fund
and the Local 166 Profit Sharing Annuity Fund. These retirement vehicles are
provided through a Collective Bargaining Agreement between Local 166
Plumbers & Steamfitters and MCA of northeast Indiana. We have over $35
million invested in these two Funds with almost one half of the total in
mutual funds. It is of the utmost importance that you enact disclosure rules
forcing mutual funds to disclose their proxy votes and why they take the
positions they take on the issues. The future of my funds and the retirement
benefits these funds provide is dependent upon the success of the companies
in which the funds are invested. We have a responsibility to our
participants to know how the fund managers vote and communicate with the
managers on the issues important to us, the investors, after all it is our
money. That is why I support full disclosure and urge you enact these rules.
Thank you for your time in this important matter.      John Hampton