The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-10-23
 ISSUED BY
 (0UNCIL.MEN
Four Who Voted 10 Dust Antrim Explain Rea-
 sons in Letter

Four city councilmen who voted for the recent dismissal of former City Engineer Hugh Antrim, today issued the following statement:
 When the City Council voted, on october 6, to remove City En- gineer Hugh Antrim, it did so under authority of Territorial law permitting the Council to remove any city employee at pleasure. There seemed to be no point in listing reasons for the removal, and it was felt that to do so would be to his further detriment.
 Since Mir Antrim has insisted that reasons be given. and since handful of Juneau citizens have taken it upon themselves to make an issue of the dismissal, even going so far as to question the legality of the Councils action ap- parently because of ignorance of the law. the following statement is presented for the records and for the information of the public by the undersigned Councilmen, who vote for MT. Antrims dis missal
 When MT. Antrim was hired he was given no contract. It was un- derstood that the appointment was not permanent, and that he would be employed as long as he was serving useful purpose. The bulk of his salary is as Street Foreman, while a smaller amount is paid for his services as City Engineer, and an even smaller sum t$35.0O per month) as Building Inspector.
 Not Doing Work
 Mir. Antrim has been spending most of his time fulfilling the duties of Building Inspector, which is supposed to be a minor part of his work, while at the same time spending very little time as Street Foreman, which is his main job. We feel that MT. Antrim in this respect has not been doing the work for which he was hired.
 One of the immediate reasons for hiring MT. Antrim as City En- gineer was that need existed-and still exists, for additional cemetery space. MT. Antrim was advised of this, was taken to one of the pro- posed sites of the new cemetery, so that he could make survey and advise the Council as to the possibilities at this location. As far as the Council has ever been ad- yised, MT. Antrim has completely ignored this matter. In this re- spect, too, he failed to perform the duties for which he was hired.
 Upon the recommendation of MT. Antrim the City purchased an asphalt repairing machine to patch up the many cracks, holes and other irregularities in Juneaus con- crete streets. This machine arrived last summer. and since its arrival the weather has been much better than normal for doing such work. In spite of this, MT. Antrim, Street Foreman, has never had the ma chine in operation This is another case where MT. Antrim did not do his job
 Other Reasons
 These are few of the reasons why we feel that MT. Antrim was not doing the work for which he was hired. Perhaps one of the reasons why he failed to perform his work was that he had spent too much of his time, particularly in recent weeks, in what appears to us to have been attempts to undermine, discredit and cast as- pensions at the City Council These include his talk before the Chamber of Commerce, in Which he enlarged on some of the most needed im- proyements in Juneau, with it's ob- yious implication that the Council was negligent; his communication appearing in a local newspaper ob- viously designed to promote pas sage of the proposed new Uniform Building Code. and which appeared during the time the Code was under consideration by the Coun- cilmen. who are elected for the
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