In USMA 12413 Eddie Lechat asked:
>I would like to have somebody share with us some
>proposed resolution in favor of metrication which we
>might bring to various scientific and political and
>civic and business and labor groups.
I have searched my archives to find a resolution that the Canadian
Information Processing Society adopted in 1968 urging the Canadian
government to switch the country to SI. Unfortunately I have been able to
find, so here is how I would word a resolution today;
OBSERVING that 95 % of the world's population uses the International System
of Units (SI) for all measurements;
AND OBSERVING that US exports would be facilitated if all dimensions were
dimensioned and expressed in round SI terms;
AND OBSERVING that the use of the SI in the United States for all
measurements would save unnecessary arithmetic and would simplify all
measuring;
THERFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the US Govrnemnt should establish a Metric
Board charged, in consultation with the various sectors of manufacturing,
commerce and education, to draw up time-limited schedules for conversion of
all measurement activities to the SI.
Joseph B. Reid
17 Glebe Road West
Toronto M5P 1C8 Tel. 416 486-6071
