 However, Sindicatos Libres failed to gain dynamics and stagnated.In 1922 Don Jaime asked the Carlist political leader Marqués de Villores to revitalize Requeté and Juventudes into "action groups", but there is no tangible outcome of this initiative known.While in 1923 Catalonia saw another surge of violence bordering collapse of public order, requeté contributed little; at times noted for clashes of their organized squads with the police, they were increasingly frequently on the defeated end during skirmishes with left-wing hit-squads.