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The union representing East Coast dockworkers has been hemorrhaging assets and members in the past two years, according to a new financial report. Yet the union?s president was paid twice as much as several labor leaders who head unions more than 30 times larger. The union, the International Longshoremen?s Association, paid its president, John Bowers, $587,078 last year, according to the annual report that the union submitted to the federal government late last month. That made him one of the nation?s highest-paid union officials. Mr. Bowers?s son John Jr., a union vice president, was paid $292,440 last year, the report said.