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About 30,000 engineering workers from factories in the surrounding area joined the pitmen outside the Saltley Gate coke works, which held a stockpile of coal used to fuel power stations.

From BBC • Feb. 10, 2022

Paying tribute to several dead pitmen buried at Newton parish church, they remembered the miners' strike nearly 30 years ago which had put scores of local men on the dole.

From The Guardian • Apr. 17, 2013

Sauce just covers up bad barbecue, Texas pitmen say.

From Washington Post • Mar. 15, 2011

While thrilled with introducing the story of the pitmen to their countrymen, three of the actors used the word “ecstatic” to describe their feelings of taking the play to Broadway.

From New York Times • Sep. 3, 2010

The Fairburn pitmen had declined to be mixed up in the quarrel, as they called it.

From With Marlborough to Malplaquet A Story of the Reign of Queen Anne by Strang, Herbert