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Despite huge federal subsidies ($502 million in fiscal '76), U.S. maritime employment has continued to fall; today there are 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...
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...
Further, Watergate Special Prosecutor Charles Ruff, who is investigating Ford's use of his congressional campaign money, last week brought a witness to testify before a Washington grand jury. The witness was Jesse Calhoon, president of the National Marine Engineers Beneficial Association, one of the two maritime unions that contributed...
One evening Dapper hit a car driven by a black man who had stopped at a red light in Roxbury. According to the widely accepted account of the incident, O'Neil got out of his car, enraged, pulled his ever present gun out of his belt and placed it at...
In any case, Jesse M. Calhoon, president of the Marine Engineers, sponsored a $ 1,000-a-person fund-raising dinner in Washington on June 30 that raised $150,000 for Carter's primary campaign. This more than matched some direct Seafarers' donations to other recent presidential candidates: $100...