The attempt proved impracticable, and following wholesale arrests in the spring of 1902, the League fell to pieces. In August 1902 those "Yuzhny Rabochy" members who remained at liberty entered into negotiations with the "Iskra" editorial board about working together to restore Party unity. The group's statement of solidarity with "Iskra" (published in No. 27 of "Iskra", November 1, 1902, and in No. 10 of "Yuzhny Rabochy", December 1902) was of much importance in consolidating the Social-Democratic forces. In November 1902 "Yuzhny Rabochy" joined with the Iskra organisation in Russia and the St. Petersburg Committee and Northern League of the R.S.D.L.P. in establishing the Organising Committee for convening the Second Party Congress, and they shared in that committee’s work. But in this period too the group did not adhere to the consistent revolutionary line and evinced separatist tendencies (proposing, for example, to set up another all-Russia newspaper in addition to "Iskra"). Lenin classed "Yuzhny Rabochy" among the organisations "which, while verbally recognising "Iskra" as the leading organ, actually pursued plans of their own and were unstable in matters of principle". At the 2nd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party the "Yuzhny Rabochy" delegates adopted a 'Centre' position (that of 'middling opportunists', as Lenin called the 'Centre'). "Yuzhny Rabochy" had two delegates at the Second Party Congress; Levin and Rozanov.