SNIPPET: "Lovely Leitrim" -- "Last night I had a pleasant dream/I woke up with a smile/I dreamt that I was back again, in Dear Old Erin's Isle/I thought I saw Lough Allen's banks and the valleys down below/Sure it was my Lovely Leitrim/Where the Shannon waters flow." John J. SWEENEY, Pres. AFL-CIO, author "American Needs a Raise" (1996), is a first generation Irish-American. His family emigrated in 1929 from Co. Leitrim, Ireland. His family names are SWEENEY and McMORROW. Born 5 May 1934, John spent his youth in the Tremont section of The Bronx. He said that there were three things that mattered in the Sweeney household: family, church and organized labor. "We knew that without family there would be no love, without the Church there would be no hope for redemption, and without the Union there would be no food on the table." Sweeney's father was a NYC bus driver and a proud member of the Transport Workers.