coalies

In among the timber-stacks three "coalies" were engaged in beating a fourth.

Pelle the Conqueror — Complete Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911

In among the timber-stacks three "coalies" were engaged in beating a fourth.

Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 03 Martin Andersen Nex�� 1911

But what about the coalies that are listed as board members but don't show up on ACCCE's website?

Pete Altman: ACCCE: the American Chamber of Connected Coal Executives 2009

On the one hand were the coalies of the Westbourne Park yards, on strike and gaunt and hungry, children begging in the black slush, and starving loungers outside a soup kitchen; and on the other,

Love and Mr. Lewisham 1906

They thus enter regionally relevant senses of such general English words as bay, coast, harbour, and alongside such true dialect items as bawn, ` meadow, expanse of rocks on which salted cod are dried, 'coalies ` playing-cards,' hapse ` hasp, 'and shoreyer ` American common eider.'

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 2 1983

On the one hand were the coalies of the Westbourne Park yards, on strike and gaunt and hungry, children begging in the black slush, and starving loungers outside a soup kitchen; and on the other, Westbourne Grove, two streets further, a blazing array of crowded shops, a stirring traffic of cabs and carriages, and such a spate of spending that a tired student in leaky boots and graceless clothes hurrying home was continually impeded in the whirl of skirts and parcels and sweetly pretty womanliness.

Love and Mr Lewisham Herbert George 2004