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Marine Engineers Beneficial Association Leader Jesse Calhoon cited lax Liberian standards for licensing ship captains as one reason for all the tanker problems. In Liberia, he says-with considerable exaggeration-"you could be throwing coconuts out of a tree last week and be the master of a vessel this week...
That is what Calhoon and his maritime cohorts want most of all-a guaranteed share of U.S. trade. Such a guarantee might rejuvenate the American merchant fleet, but in the long run it would harm the nation's overall trading position by making U.S. exports more expensive. In return for Carter's promise, the union promptly raised $200,000 for his campaign...
...only 27,000 seafaring jobs v. 66,000 ten years ago. One reason: new ships corning into service are twice as big and twice as fast as those they replace and need far fewer crew members. The unions thus battle to keep every job they can. MEBA President Jesse Calhoon has set up his union's own engineer-training institute in Baltimore, and its graduates receive preferential treatment for the few available engineering berths in the U.S. merchant marine...
Good Friends. But later, President Ford vetoed the bill; he feared that the higher transport costs in U.S. ships would only incite further inflation, then running above 11%. That irked the maritime men, especially MEBA'S Calhoon. Says a top AFL-CIO official: "Jesse knows you've got to have friends in this business, and he's good at finding them." After Ford's apostasy, Calhoon threw the union's support behind Washington Democratic Senator Henry Jackson, who for defense reasons is a strong advocate of a healthy American merchant marine. Later, when Jackson...
...part of the special prosecutor's investigation of Ford's use of previous campaign funds, Ruff last week also interrogated the Marine Engineers' union president, Calhoon, before a Washington grand jury. Ruff was most likely engaged in a prosecutorial practice known as "freezing testimony." This procedure puts a witness's sworn testimony into the record for possible later reference. Calhoon's responses before the grand jury may well have indicated Ford's innocence; if so, Ruff was nevertheless correctly carrying out his mandate by asking the questions in the forum...