The maritime industry and the maritime unions have long been major contributors to Alaska's federal office-holders.   The bane of my life in State labor relations during Murkowski was the fact that the licensed maritime unions had endorsed him, the only unions that did, and he went back to Ketchikan days with the father of the Masters & Mates union lobbyist.   They were the only unions that could get in to see him and he was far kinder to them than the others.   I considered it one of my better victories that as far as I know they never got in to see him when I or my Commissioner weren't there.