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...Cause find themselves on the same side of an issue with the major oil companies, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the leadership of the Republican Party. But last week just such a formidable, if unlikely coalition sank the Energy Transportation Security Act of 1977, better known as the cargo preference bill. In a confused and acrimonious vote, the House of Representatives defeated the bill, 257 to 165. In so doing, the legislators rejected both Jimmy Carter's endorsement of the measure and a campaign by U.S. shipping companies and maritime unions to ensure its passage...
...John Murphy, chairman of the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee, and $51,713 to five other prominent committee members. Jimmy Carter was another beneficiary of the unions' largesse; he received more than $100,000 in his bid for the presidency. So when Murphy sponsored the cargo preference bill and Carter backed it last July, House Republican Leader John Rhodes was not totally unjustified in charging "political payoff...
...final vote showed, members of Congress have grown more reluctant to support the maritime industry. Only three years ago, the House approved, by a 30-vote margin, a more generous version of the cargo preference bill-one that would have allotted 30% of U.S. oil imports to U.S.-flag ships. Gerald Ford vetoed that measure...
This year Common Cause, the major oil companies and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce joined forces in a counterattack against the maritime lobby. Some recipients of past maritime contributions made a point of opposing the cargo preference bill on the roll call in order to demonstrate to their constituents that their votes were not for sale. Sensing the new mood, Speaker O'Neill decided not to pressure Democrats into supporting the Administration. The bill was "not a party issue," he said...
...salary whether or not there is work for them, and the I.L.A. agreed in return to put a freeze on additions to its union rolls. Locals in each port negotiate the size of the guarantee. The money comes from a tonnage charge levied by port employer associations on all cargo that crosses the docks. In the Port of New York, through which about a third of all U.S. container traffic passes, longshoremen are guaranteed pay for 2,080 hours annually-40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year. In ports with less container ship traffic, guarantees are smaller...